A federal appeals court on Thursday dealt with a question most employers would prefer never to confront: whether a manager has created a hostile work environment by slinging two vicious racial slurs at an employee within a 24-hour period.
For a majority of judges at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, that sort of conduct could be enough to engender a racially hostile atmosphere.
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