LSU Sorority House Chef’s Race Discrimination Claims Fall Short

A Black chef who cooked for Delta Zeta’s Louisiana State University chapter failed to show that sorority entities employed her, dooming her racially hostile work environment claims against the group.

Plaintiff Bernadine Williams argued Delta Zeta jointly employed her with food service provider College Fresh Inc., but she didn’t allege that the sorority entities paid her salary or had firing, supervision, or schedule-setting rights, the US District Court for the Middle District of Louisiana said Tuesday.

Williams began working for College Fresh at a different sorority house in August 2020 and was moved to the Delta Zeta house later that ...