Black women working in an assisted living facility in Alabama were called racial slurs, threatened and retaliated upon when reporting discrimination, according to allegations in a federal lawsuit.
Black women working in an assisted living facility in Alabama were called racial slurs, threatened and retaliated upon when reporting discrimination, according to a federal lawsuit filed today.
An attorney for NHS and Florala Rehabilitation did not respond to a request for comment on Tuesday by time of publication. The company has not yet responded to the lawsuit in court records. The lawsuit also alleges that staffers at Florala Rehabilitation frequently make “ridiculing comments about their African-American coworkers, including ugly remarks about their skin, hair texture, and supposed ‘smell.” The complaint says one white employee grabbed a Black employee’s hair and called her “horsehead.”
Seven of the nine women say they faced retaliatory action when reporting discrimination. One was fired, according to the lawsuit. Another was left off the work schedule after requesting to go part time, the suit says. Six of the women still work at Florala Rehabilitation. The complaint was filed in the United States District Court for the Middle District of Alabama. It was filed in federal court, not state court, because Alabama is one of just five states that does not have a civil rights law, according to Davis. The state also lacks other laws that protect employees from harm in the workplace, such as emotional distress, he said.
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