A handful of former employees say the LBO had a "culture of misogyny," and criticized the organization for not releasing the full investigation, but only a one-page summary.
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In the lawsuit, Bazella Caprice McDonald, a special projects manager with the city’s Civil Service Department, alleged that then-Civil Service Director Kandice Taylor-Sherwood criticized the way Black people talk and told McDonald she “should focus on being more ‘white’” if she wanted to be promoted. After McDonald complained, she found herself excluded from meetings and ignored by supervisors, according to her lawsuit.
Taylor-Sherwood led the Civil Service Department, which is responsible for managing how the city screens job applicants and handles employees’ disciplinary appeals. Part of its mission is to ensure the city retains “a diverse, high-quality classified workforce.”