USA: Single racial slur by co-worker insufficient for FEHA suit

What happens if a supervisor refers to an employee in a racially abusive way, but the incident is isolated and never repeated? Does that constitute racial harassment? According to the California Appellate Court, the California Fair Employment and Housing Act (FEHA) is infringed when a workplace is so “permeated with discriminatory intimidation, ridicule and insult that it becomes an ‘abusive working environment’” …

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