When employee said colleague used the n-word, N.J. company was too slow to act, state says

A state Civil Rights investigation has preliminarily found that Capital Health supervisors failed to adequately respond to a Black employee’s complaints of racial slurs and stereotypes, including a coworker using the n-word.

The alleged comments occurred at a billing office in Lawrence in 2019, and were only partially addressed after the employee who first complained sent an email to a company vice president two months later, the New Jersey Division on Civil Rights alleges in a finding of probable cause in the case.

And, the company failed to get a “better understanding” of the broader implications of the complaints of a hostile workplace, the finding says.

The finding is not final, but finds reasonable suspicion the company violated the New Jersey Law Against Discrimination.

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