We have written before about the EEOC’s announced intent, as per its Strategic Enforcement Plan (“SEP”), to protect “vulnerable” workers. We said on June 5, 2014: “‘The most vulnerable
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Harassing Ethnic Comments To Employee Of Polish Ancestry Incurs Wrath Of EEOC
The EEOC has announced that it has sued a West Virginia mining company for national origin discrimination. The company allegedly knew that its supervisory and non-supervisory personnel were regularly subjecting
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The “N-Word” – Three New EEOC Lawsuits
Just when we thought that maybe the N-word — just maybe — had been consigned to the dustbin of employment law history, three new EEOC lawsuits were filed this week
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Court: “One Utterance Of The N-Word” Not Severe Enough For Hostile Workplace
Last June a federal court held that the single use of the “N-word” was not enough to create a hostile workplace. This is not the first court to so hold
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Outrageous Slurs Against Hispanic Employee Impels EEOC To Sue
A North Carolina AutoZone store was just sued by the EEOC for national origin discrimination and harassment.
According to the EEOC, the Hispanic employee was forced to resign, after months
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Parsing The Times – With Lox And Bagels
Reading the New York Times at breakfast this weekend we saw a few important items worthy of noting.
The Times reported on Saturday that “Current and former female firefighters of
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Same-Sex Sexual Harassment Leads To $290,000 Settlement With The EEOC
Although sexual orientation discrimination is not prohibited under Title VII, same-sex sexual harassment is — as a species of gender-based sexual harassment. The distinction is important. (While Title VII affords
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Brouhaha In Wales Over Workplace “Banter”
There’s apparently a bit of a brouhaha in Wales — the former City Manager of Cardiff was caught sending racist text messages.
Why is this worthy of a post?
Because
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Customer/Stalker Causes EEOC Lawsuit Against Employer
We just wrote about “third-party harassment” and cited to our many blog posts in which we have written that a hostile work environment can be created in any way, by
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“Third-Party Sexual Harassment” — What Every Employer Must Know
We have commented in many blog posts that a hostile work environment can be created in any way, by anybody, or by any means, if the employer does not address
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