Harassment Update

After reading about some discrimination cases it is hard to avoid the suspicion that there are people who exist in a time capsule.

Workplace Prof Blog reports on a national origin harassment case that received summary judgment for the plaintiff. The alleged conduct was:

[O]ver a four year time period: (1) Moore [a management trainee] refused to shake Herrera's [the plaintiff] hand in 1997 when they met; (2) in 1999, Moore gave Cunningham "Mexican peanut brittle" with a note to give it to Herrera; (3) Moore told Herrera to deal with certain customers because they were either Mexican or liked Mexicans; (4) Moore told Cunningham to tell Herrera not to "Mexicanize" Herrera's new company truck; (5) Moore would refer to Herrera as "the Mexican" or the "f-cking Mexican" whenever he spoke with Cunningham (Herrera's supervisor), Carolyn Coleman (the secretary), and Bill Bryant (the warehouse manager). These types of comments were made against Herrera every two or three days and Herrera was informed of some of the comments.