A white employee who touched off an angry debate about Black Lives Matter couldn’t show that Piedmont Airlines Inc. or its employees unlawfully harassed her because of her race, a federal district court in North Carolina decided.
Proving unlawful racial harassment at work required showing the employee was targeted due to her race, not merely because she made controversial remarks that related to race or racial conflict.
Victoria Squitieri, a ramp unit manager at Charlotte, N.C., used her personal Facebook page to complain that the Black Lives Matter movement was “stoking the fire of racial tension and hate” with “bullshit ...
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