Hostile work environment among the causes of action:
Les “Bud” Buckner, who remains an employee at Metro Water
Services, sued the city over alleged sexual harassment after slanderous
graffiti was directed at him from the time he was hired more than seven years
ago.
The slurs continued to appear at work areas Buckner frequented
from October 2010 through February 2013, written in vehicle bays, the restroom
at the Third Avenue water department office where Buckner works, inside work
vehicles and at a gas station, according to his lawsuit.
...
According
to the suit, Buckner complained to supervisors on multiple occasions “to no
avail whatsoever.” They never even tried to identify or discipline the
perpetrators, the complaint says. Instead, the plaintiff at one point accused one
of his supervisors of physically assaulting him.
...
Last
year, the U.S. 7th Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a $3.8 million verdict that
came down on auto-manufacturing company Chrysler following racist and
homophobic graffiti there. In 2011, the Tennessee Court of Appeals upheld two
awards exceeding $300,000 against the city of La Vergne because of
discriminatory remarks co-workers made about each other.
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