Hospital Employee Established Prima Facie Case Of Retaliation
Denying
the defendants’ motion for summary judgment, the United States District Court
held that the plaintiff, an African-American
hospital employee, had established a prima facie case of retaliation under Title
VII and the Massachusetts civil rights statute. The employee produced evidence
she wrote a letter to the acting director of the hospital's facilities
management department claiming the hospital owed her two years of accrued
call-back pay. The letter could be fairly read as an opposition to allegedly
unlawful employment practices, and the employee suffered one or more adverse
employment actions as a result thereof. A fact issue existed as to whether the
employee's complaints of discrimination caused her to be singled out as a target
of retaliation.
Booker v. Massachusetts Dept. of Public Health