How much is enough?
On May 15th we wrote that the test for a hostile work environment is, in sum, that harassing acts or epithets must either be severe or
Continue Reading Does One N-Word, One Sexual Assault, Plus Four Other Harassing Incidents In “Eleven Days At Most” Create a Hostile Work Environment?
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
Continue Reading Workplace Harassment: “When It Gets As Bad As Racial Slurs That Means No One Noticed”
How many racist slurs need be endured to create a hostile workplace? That is the current on-going conversation on this blog.
But besides those readers who quantify the answer, or
Continue Reading Should A “Racist Tax” Or Fines Be Levied To Stop Racial Harassment?
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
Continue Reading “Who Decides If A Specific Word Is A ‘Racial Slur?’ That Is A Real Dilemma”
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
Continue Reading “Find Out About The Culture Of Your Company,” A Reader Advises
In the past we discussed the issue of “how many” – i.e., how many times an employee must endure a crude and offensive racial or other epithet for the
Continue Reading How Many Racial Slurs Must Be Made To Constitute A Hostile Work Environment?
Yesterday we blogged 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
Continue Reading Racist Independent Contractor Can Render Employer Liable
The Herald News out of Halifax has reported on a racial harassment case involving use of the term “lynching” in the context of a performance review of a black salesperson.
Continue Reading Nova Scotia Store Manager: “Clear The Room Because ‘It’s Time For A Lynching’”
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
Continue Reading The “N-Word” And Nooses: “You People Are Too Sensitive” Claims Supervisor
There are few subjects we have written more about than the use of the “N-word” in the workplace — which seems to be ever-present when racial harassment is alleged. On
Continue Reading The “N-Word” – “Still A Problem In The American Workplace”