Discussions on Recent Legislation, Noteworthy Cases & Trends in Enforcement
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 an employee complaint that the workplace has been made hostile by, say, sexually harassing behavior of an employee.
A newly filed lawsuit gives us a…
My assistant, Chrissie, (take a bow, Chrissie) just showed me a hilarious Saturday Night Live clip of an old musical Christmas skit whose song inexplicably popped in her head today.
Chrissie said we should do this every Friday, have a little 5 minute laugh session. I immediately said that’s a great idea. As I then went…
Thanks to my friend Judy Greenwald of Business Insurance who brought to my attention an interesting decision this week from a federal appeals court in Boston.
A female employee of a university and her supervisor had a weeklong “out-of-town” affair, after which when they returned home, “embarrassed by the fling, [she] rebuffed him.” Some time later …
Last month we thought that we had capped a whole series of blogs about the “N-word” and the image of a noose which appear regularly in cases of hostile work environment based upon racial harassment. We cited a decision where the Court stated that this frequent use of the “N-word” and racial jokes was "constitutionally…
Racial slurs and nooses – these have been the subjects of more than one of our recent blogs. Now the EEOC reports an upping of the ante – a late-night threat of death against an employee if he made any more racial harassment complaints against co-workers.
It is extraordinary that the “N-word” and the noose keep reappearing in lawsuits claiming a racially harassing workplace, as we have shown in our recent blogs.
I will mention just one more case just filed by the EEOC in this regard. It has been alleged that a Reno company, Wedco, Inc., violated Title VII by subjecting a…
According to an EEOC attorney "It is unconscionable that in the 21st century anyone should have to work in a racially hostile environment riddled with highly offensive acts of intimidation simply to earn a decent living."
What happened? A newly-filed EEOC lawsuit accuses oil drilling companies in Texas of violating Title VII when supervisors and other…
If you did not already know, now that we have evolved from the world of “Mad Men,” sexual harassment in the workplace is no longer considered a joke or simply a cultural artifact. It is a serious violation of law, and juries do not hesitate to slap a company which tolerates it.
For example, the…
A federal appeals court, in a recent decision which it declared is “not precedential,” dealt with a situation where a woman’s supervisor repeatedly called, emailed and confronted her, at home and at work, after she rebuffed his romantic overtures to her.
In granting summary judgment to the employer, the Court, construing her claims for “hostile…
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