Elijah Turley, a steelworker for ArcelorMittal in Buffalo, NY, was awarded $25 million in damages from the company's failure to stop racial torment created by his co-workers at the steel plant. Such torment included "KKK" and "King Kong" graffiti on the plant's walls, and a stuffed money with a noose around its neck hanging from his driver's side mirror.
Companies like this need to wake up: they just cannot allow things like this to go on! This creates a hostile work environment that makes work miserable for the offended party. It's the same as bullying, and can have detrimental effects to the victims of such abuse. I hope that the amount that this particular company has to pay toward Turley acts as a lesson for other companies so that they may take action against such behavior.
Do you think Turley should have gotten $25 million in damages?
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