Two lawyers who represent employees have responded to our request for comments made in our recent post entitled “Zero Tolerance” And “Broken Windows?”
And for the most part they are
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The N-Word in the Workplace
“Zero Tolerance” And “Broken Windows?”
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“Zero Tolerance” – is it an ambiguous term, we asked recently? Is it a synonym for “non-thinking,” as one reader suggested?
Should it be reserved for serious violations? Does “one…
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Racial Slurs And Nooses Brings Forth Another EEOC Lawsuit
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The EEOC has just sued a major transportation and distribution services provider from New Jersey for harassment based on race and national origin under Title VII.
This comes after a…
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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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Court: “One Utterance Of The N-Word” Not Severe Enough For Hostile Workplace
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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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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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Juries Don’t Like Nooses or the “N-Word”: Neither Do Appellate Courts
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On February 4, 2013 we said that juries do not like nooses or the N-word in the workplace. This was in the context of a verdict by a North Carolina…
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Legal Compliance Is Not Enough: “What’s Right” And Your Company Values Are Important
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On May 28th we did a post entitled “Does One N-Word, One Sexual Assault, Plus Four Other Harassing Incidents In “Eleven Days At Most” Create a Hostile Work Environment?” …
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Does One N-Word, One Sexual Assault, Plus Four Other Harassing Incidents In “Eleven Days At Most” Create a Hostile Work Environment?
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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…
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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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