Former MBTA worker is awarded $2.65m over discrimination
A federal jury has awarded more than $2.6 million to a former MBTA Green Line employee who contended she was a victim of racial discrimination when she was fired in 2013, a verdict that lawyers for the transit agency had argued “no reasonable jury” could reach.
Michelle Dimanche had worked for the T for 13 years when she was terminated after enduring years of what she described in court papers as “demeaning and insulting remarks’’ from white supervisors who meted out less serious punishments to white MBTA employees.
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