"You can't force me to sit through DEI training! I'm White. It creates a racially hostile work environment."
That's what one employee recently argued in a racial harassment lawsuit he filed against his employer, a state department of corrections, which had mandated DEI training for all employees.
The 10th Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed the dismissal of this lawsuit, concluding that this training could not constitute a hostile work environment because it only occurred one and lacked any race-based ridicule or insults.
But all is not roses for employers and their efforts to offer DEI training to better their workplaces.