Harassment allegations against fired Arab-Muslim SBA worker head to trial

The Small Business Administration must face trial for creating a hostile work environment for a worker who was temporarily hired during the Covid-19 pandemic because of her religion and national origin, a Michigan federal judge has ruled.

A jury could find that the alleged harassment affected the Arab-Muslim woman’s job performance during her tenure at the SBA, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan said Thursday. The woman says her two main harassers failed to introduce her at meetings with agency partners, ignored her job-related requests for information, and that one of them – a leading business expert…