Employee sued by his ‘Batman’ ex-coworker
Kenneth Hughes, a former employee of Vermont Composites and a resident of Shaftsbury, is suing the company and his former co-worker, Ed Novak. He claims that he was subject to multiple racial slurs (Hughes is black). He does not elaborate on the slurs used. He said that Novak also commented negatively against his daughters who are of Asian descent. Novak called them derogatory terms such as “whores” and “sluts”.
His main complaint, however, is Novak’s use of the terms “Batman” and “Hollywood”. He says that he felt slighted by his colleague since he was being called nickname whereas noone else was. He had never filed a complaint against Novak to his superiors in the company. He is also making a complaint against Vermont Composites for wrongful termination.
Novak has completely denied saying anything negative about his daughters. He has retaliated about the superhero nickname by saying that he used it due to their shared interest in comic books.
During the deposition, Hughes said that he had previously requested Novak to refer to him as the Flash (another comic book superhero). However, this time it was n reference to his music career where he performed regularly at the Kevin's Sports Pub and Restaurant using the title Ken Flash.
Attorney Andrew Maass has spoken of all charges against Vermont Composites as lacking merit. He is in fact waiting for the complaint to be withdrawn, otherwise he will file for the charges to be dismissed.
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