Poor employee policies fosters hostile work environment for Black employees - Paralegal Miller Canfield Employee Review

They isolate, punish, and retaliate against employees for complaining about working in hostile work environments. They turn the victim into the enemy instead of viewing the complaints as a form of constructive criticism and fixing the problems. The firm advises clients on employment laws and boosts about its diversity program. However, the firm has much work to do internally on practicing what they preach. The firm has a reputation of being one of the oldest and most prestigious law firms in Michigan. The firm is currently improving their diversity hiring of minorities, but they fail in the areas of equity and inclusion. They have a problem retaining them due to poor treatment of people of color. Most Black people work in the Detroit office. Although their suburban location has few people of color, they have less tolerance for "minority issues". The Black office managers are for show only , no real power. The Black Diversity Director is a mere puppet for the firm, to make the firm look good in the public eye. There are no diversity programs or activities currently in place. The firm has had only had one firm wide diversity training program and that was about 15 years ago. It's going to be hard for them to shake the good ole boys mentality until they start changing the racist good ole boy mentality that still exist despite their "for show only" so called diversity statements. You will find most employees reluctant to speak against the firm for fear of getting a bad job reference or being fired. The firm, like many big powerful companies, coverup much of their wrong doings by having former employees sign a severance agreement and giving them "hush money".