Verizon Unit Beats Fired Black Worker’s Suit on His Use of Slur

Verizon Wireless defeated a lawsuit alleging it discriminated against an African American employee when it fired him after he twice in the workplace used an anti-Black slur.

The worker argued that the Verizon store where he worked shouldn’t have fired him for using the slur under his breath after he walked away from a conversation with a White coworker. But it’s “an absurdity” for him to implicitly claim that anti-bias laws “effectively enshrine a right for any person to use any slur which applies to their own protected characteristic in the workplace,” the US District Court for the Eastern District ...