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
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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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EEOC Sues NYC Pawn Shop Owner For Sexual and Racial Harassment Of “Vulnerable” Workers
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Reuters reported yesterday that the EEOC has just sued a pawn shop chain in Brooklyn and Queens (that’s NYC), owned by a convicted fence known as “Fat Frank.” The EEOC…
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Will We Finally Learn How Many Racial Slurs Constitute A Hostile Work Environment? A Court May Give Us A Number
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“How do we square these two rulings”?
We asked this question on May 15th apropos a new decision from a three-judge federal appeals court panel sitting in Virginia which…
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“Anti-Harassment At The Heart Of EEOC’s Mission”
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Incidents of harassment against Muslim and Arab employees have been on the rise, with virulent and racist epithets and slurs at the core.
On October 2, 2013 we reported on…
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Workplace Harassment: “When It Gets As Bad As Racial Slurs That Means No One Noticed”
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Our recent post asked “how many times an employee must endure a crude and offensive racial or other epithet for the situation to become a hostile work environment?” We also …
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“Who Decides If A Specific Word Is A ‘Racial Slur?’ That Is A Real Dilemma”
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Very few topics which we have discussed in this blog have produced more reader comments than racial harassment, and specically racial slurs and epithets. On May 15th we asked, based…
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“Find Out About The Culture Of Your Company,” A Reader Advises
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Our recent post asking “how many times an employee must endure a crude and offensive racial or other epithet for the situation to become a hostile work environment” drew a …
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The “N-Word” And Nooses: “You People Are Too Sensitive” Claims Supervisor
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The EEOC has just announced that “In the past two months, the EEOC has had several cases involving severe racial harassment, including a $2.7 million settlement against an environmental clean-up…
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