The state Division on Civil Rights says it has found probable cause that a New Brunswick electrical contractor’s repeated use of a black racial epithet created a hostile work environment that prompted an Asian bookkeeper to resign.
The business owner admitted using the word “nigger” several times within earshot of the employee, Shi-Juan Lin, whose fiancé is black and of Jamaican heritage — actions that could support a finding that Lin was constructively discharged when she quit after four months’ employment, the division found.
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