Case: Discrimination/Hostile Work Environment (S.D.N.Y.)

The New York City Housing Authority is entitled to summary judgment on the race and sex discrimination and related retaliation claims brought under Title VII and 42 U.S.C. 1981 by an employee of Asian descent alleging that the housing authority subjected her to a hostile work environment before wrongfully terminating her, a New York federal court ruled. Her claim that because of her race, she received unsatisfactory job reviews and six counseling memoranda after her first satisfactory probationary review, was forced to work alone in a building where she was sexually threatened, denied a work coat in cold weather, and ...