A state Civil Rights investigation has preliminarily found that Capital Health supervisors failed to adequately respond to a Black employee’s complaints of racial slurs and stereotypes, including a coworker using the n-word.
The alleged comments occurred at a billing office in Lawrence in 2019, and were only partially addressed after the employee who first complained sent an email to a company vice president two months later, the New Jersey Division on Civil Rights alleges in a finding of probable cause in the case.
And, the company failed to get a “better understanding” of the broader implications of the complaints of a hostile workplace, the finding says.
The finding is not final, but finds reasonable suspicion the company violated the New Jersey Law Against Discrimination.
Capital Health, which operates two hospitals and a sizable outpatient center in Mercer County, as well as over a dozen healthcare centers and offices, including in Burlington and Bucks (Pennsylvania) counties, said it could not comment on the specific case, since it’s ongoing.
The company says it remains committed to addressing behavior inconsistent with its values and “offering a workplace that provides respect for both our employees and patients, and that leaves no room for discriminatory or racially inflammatory language or actions.”
The Civil Rights division, a unit of the Attorney General’s office, learned of the employee’s allegations via a November 2020 complaint she filed with the division,...
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