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The article that I found is called “Black educators fired from private Manhattan preschools because of race: suit”. The article is about five African American women that filled a lawsuit against their employers because of race discrimination. These women worked as educators at a private Manhattan preschool and were fired between 2010 and 2013 after the private preschool brought in a new head administrator named Renee Bock. They claimed they worked in a hostile environment and that after getting fired they were substituted by white educators. They accused Renee Bock because before she got the new position all the five educators reports showed that they all have satisfactory work evaluations, had experience and were qualified for the job. Most of them had been working there for years and were fired for senseless reasons. They suited the private school for lost wages and benefits as well as compensation for emotional suffering. For what I learned, after the women were fire there was not a diverse workforce and the majority of the employees were white. The first lesson learned in this case is to let all the high level and low-level employees the importance of creating a diverse workforce to prevent disparate treatment and disparate impact. The second lesson to be learned by the employers is that at the time of hiring they should let candidates know about their policy against discrimination and racism in any form. The third lesson learned from this situation is that to prevent racial discrimination in the workplace employers should trained employees in how to avoid discrimination and racism. Lastly the employer should encourage communication with employees so they are more likely to report racism. In this case the employer could have prevent this lawsuit if he would have built an open communication with his employees because the chances that employees would have reported any case of discrimination could have been higher.
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