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Dive Brief:
A Colorado corrections officer failed to plausibly allege his employer’s DEI training led to a hostile work environment, the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals held Monday.
The worker had been required to attend a training program dealing with “racial sensitivity and the historical suppression of racial minorities,” according to the court. While he alleged the training contained “disturbing generalizations” about White people and had an effect on his day-to-day work, the court disagreed, finding his complaints failed to meet the “extremely high” bar for a hostile work environment charge.
The lawsuit garnered significant attention as an early test case of the theory that DEI training leads to a hostile work environment, attracting amicus briefs from numerous conservative legal groups and more than a dozen red states in support of the worker.
