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29 Dec 2015, 3:47 pm
Sarah works for the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (though the opinions expressed here are her own) and is interested in free speech and civil liberties. [read post]
29 Dec 2015, 7:05 am
Denying summary judgment on an African-American employee’s race-based hostile work environment claims under Title VII and state law, a federal district court in California left it to a jury to decide whether a Caucasian worker’s placing a noose on another African-American worker’s backpack and tossing a Jet magazine toward the same individual created a hostile work environment for the employee, who … [read post]
27 Dec 2015, 6:23 pm
The lower court should have focused on the “polluting effect on the workplace environment” of the conduct, ruled the Tenth Circuit, reversing summary judgment on the employee’s Section 1981 race-based hostile work environment claim. [read post]
24 Dec 2015, 4:00 am
An effective General Counsel understands not only the internal aspects of the business (e.g., products, what drives revenue, financial accounting, culture, etc.), but also the external ones (e.g., market and industry characteristics, regulatory environment, macroeconomic and political environment). [read post]
23 Dec 2015, 6:14 am
In December, a federal district court in Florida dismissed on summary judgment the gender identity bias and hostile work environment claims of a transgender employee who alleged she was called “sir” on multiple occasions and ultimately fired. [read post]
21 Dec 2015, 9:38 am
After reviewing the allegations in plaintiff's complaint and summarizing the state of the law in this area, the Court sends the case back to the district court "to consider in the first instance whether Dingle alleged a plausible perceived sexual orientation hostile work environment claim and retaliation claim under the NYSHRL and NYCHRL. [read post]
17 Dec 2015, 1:52 pm
It is strange that what should be an entirely unremarkable, even if counter-cultural, invocation of their legal and moral rights has been met in many quarters with incomprehension, patronization, irritation, and even hostility. [read post]
16 Dec 2015, 9:26 am
In practical terms, this means that such covenants are only likely to be enforceable where they are fairly short in duration, the restriction is narrowly focused on the employee’s own personal activities (e.g., by geographical scope), and is specific to the commercial environment. [read post]
15 Dec 2015, 12:54 pm
And it’s doing legal work. [read post]
15 Dec 2015, 12:04 pm
An employee cannot be required to participate in religious practices or religious festivities and harassment suffered for declining to participate may create a hostile work environment under Title VII and the Texas Labor Code. [read post]
15 Dec 2015, 10:11 am
Finally, mistletoe should never be allowed in any area of the workplace including individual workspaces because it could lead to sexual harassment or hostile work environment claims. [read post]
14 Dec 2015, 9:30 pm
In particular, unlike in the employment context, the proposed rule would allow public housing complainants to use a single incident to prove that illegal quid pro quo or a hostile environment harassment occurred. [read post]
14 Dec 2015, 5:53 am
Employers may become liable for the creation of a hostile work environment if the company does not have a mechanism in place for reporting problems and does not take allegations seriously. [read post]
11 Dec 2015, 12:31 pm
Both federal and New Jersey law consider sexual harassment to be a type of unlawful sex discrimination, to the extent that it either directly affects the conditions of employment or creates a hostile work environment. [read post]
9 Dec 2015, 11:47 am
There was no doubt on Wednesday that there are three and probably four Justices who have grown deeply skeptical, if not hostile, to affirmative action in general. [read post]
3 Dec 2015, 9:23 am
We advocate for our clients’ rights in claims for sexual harassment, hostile work environment, and other unlawful employment practices under city, state, and federal laws. [read post]
3 Dec 2015, 6:42 am
” When Carroll responded that that is no different than a hostile work environment situation, Kagan replied, if somebody is demoted and then fired, “you would never say oh, he was demoted. [read post]
3 Dec 2015, 6:30 am
Return Employee To Positive Environment Another matter to be wary of is ensuring the work environment an employee returns to is not hostile to them in any way. [read post]
2 Dec 2015, 4:14 pm
I was promised this, they didn’t deliver, you know, I have a hostile work environment. [read post]
30 Nov 2015, 4:15 am
First, the company failed to recognize that the racially tinged death threats created a hostile work environment. [read post]
