A former car dealership employee in North Carolina is accusing the company of dishing out hostile racial harassment to Black employees
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A former employee filed a lawsuit against a North Carolina car dealership over racist treatment.
Lance Blair said black employees were the subjects of hostile racial harassment from 2014 to 2020.
Blair quit in 2020 after his health declined due to the harassment, the complaint said.
A former employee of a North Carolina car dealership is accusing the company of dishing out hostile racial harassment to Black employees.
In a complaint, Lance Blair, a former assistant manager at Hendrick Toyota in Concord, North Carolina, said he resigned because of the racially charged comments.
Lawsuit claims unbearable âhostile racial harassmentâ forced employee to resign from N.C. car dealership A federal lawsuit alleges that a white employee at a Rick Hendrick car dealership in Concord, NC, threw bananas at a Black co-worker and subjected him to other racists taunts. (Source: Google) By Andrew Barnett | April 16, 2021 at 11:49 AM EDT - Updated April 16 at 2:06 PM
CONCORD, N.C. (WBTV) - A lawsuit claims âhostile racial harassmentâ became so intolerable that it forced a former assistant manager to resign from Hendrick Toyota in Concord, North Carolina.
Former Hendrick employee Lance Blair filed the lawsuit against The Hendrick Companies, LLC., claiming that Phil St. George, the shop foreman of the Service Department, made racially derogatory remarks to and about Blair and other Black employees from 2014 until Blair resigned in late 2020.