The Electric Power Board of Metropolitan Nashville and Davidson County must face trial on a Black former utilities supervisor’s claims that he was subjected to racial harassment through most of his 36 years of employment and denied a deserved promotion, a federal court ruled.
A jury could find the work environment Tracy Gooch experienced after he started as a custodian in 1984 through his retirement in 2020 violated federal law, the US District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee said. It could also find the utility, which does business as Nashville Electric Service, liable for that harassment, the court ...
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