Case: Discrimination/Hostile Work Environment (E.D. Mich.)

The Detroit Salt Company is not entitled to summary judgement on race discrimination claims by a Black shipping clerk who claimed that the company created hostile work environments. A Michigan federal court ruled in this matter. The shipping clerk claims that his White colleagues used racial epithets frequently and that the son of a clerk who worked there was once called Toby, a reference back to a famous Black slave. The perception of racially…