Texas is not known for its employee-friendly laws. But on September 1, 2021, two amendments to the state labor code (H.B. 21 and S.B. 25) went into effect—providing
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Third-Party Harassment
Customer/Stalker Causes EEOC Lawsuit Against Employer
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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
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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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Teacher Sexually Harassed By Students Sues School For Hostile Work Environment
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Readers know by now that the status of a workplace sexual harasser is irrelevant to hold the employer liable for a hostile workplace – it is the existence of the…
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Racist Independent Contractor Can Render Employer Liable
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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…
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Sexual Harasser Can Be A Customer (Or A Parrot) As Long As Hostile Work Environment Is Created
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The takeaway from this post is simple — 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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“Patient Racial Preference” And “Hostile Work Environment”
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Our post about anti-discrimination laws trumping patient (or customer) preference, i.e., an employer cannot comply with a patient request not to have an African-American nurse, brought the below guidance…
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Sexual Harassment Of Healthcare Employee By Patient: $30,000 Settlement
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Harassment Can Come From Anywhere
We have written a lot about employer liability for sexual harassing behavior committed in the workplace not by supervisors or co-workers, but by non-employees. In…
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Employee Has No Duty To Mitigate Emotional Damages In Harassment Case
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A federal court has just ruled (in what may be a case of first impression) that while Title VII explictly requires a plaintiff to mitigate back pay losses, Congress’s deliberate…
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Employers May Be “On The Hook” For A Non-employee’s (Or Parrot’s) Sexually-Harassing Behavior
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We don’t mean to keep flogging the oft-cited vulgar (and annoying) parrot case but it makes a point. A parrot was kept by a patient in an expensive long term care…