Dive Summary:

• Three former staff member for Target Corp are suing the company for discrimination due to the contents of a document Target distributed internally to staff managers.
• The workers claim that a document on “Organization Effectiveness, Employee and Labor Relations Multi-Cultural Tips" encouraged discriminatory management practices.
• “The content of the document referenced is not representative of who Target is. We strive at all times to be a place where our team and guests feel welcome, valued and respected,” said Target spokesperson Molly Snyder in a statement.

From the article:

The three workers, Robert Gonzalez, Bulmaro Fabian and Pedro Garcia-Ayala, also claim in the suit that their supervisors were nearly all Caucasians who frequently used racial slurs when talking to Hispanic employees. Gonzalez says that when he went to human resources to report the problem, his bosses retaliated, and he and Fabian and Garcia-Ayala were eventually fired.