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29 May 2012, 8:16 pm
A postal employee in Alabama who complained for approximately two months of coworkers wearing confederate flag t-shirts in the workplace until the Postmaster finally instructed the supervisor to start sending the employees home to change was found by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) to have stated a viable claim of discriminatory harassment which requires further investigation by the Commission after his complaint was initially dismissed. [read post]
29 May 2012, 5:30 pm
“Caveat Emptor” Is No Way to Practice Law – Legal marketing expert Ed Poll in his LawBizBlog FCC Seeks Comment on Privacy and Security of Information Stored on Mobile Phones and Other Devices – Steve Augustino & John Heitmann of Kelley Drye on the firm’s Telecom Law Monitor The FTC Works Out Skechers’ Checkbook: Skechers Settles Claims Over Erroneous Statements in Marketing for their Toning Sneakers – Boston lawyer Sarah Knoff of… [read post]
29 May 2012, 9:39 am
Background of the Dismissal of Hostile Work Environment Claim based on Sexual Harassment. [read post]
29 May 2012, 4:00 am
’" Finally, the Appellate Division said that the teacher had failed to show that her "workplace was permeated with ‘discriminatory intimidation, ridicule and insult’ that [was] sufficiently severe or pervasive to alter the terms or conditions of' employment, so as to make out a claim for hostile work environment. [read post]
25 May 2012, 6:33 am
One court recapped the law on ”hostile work environment” claims as follows: To establish a claim of hostile work environment, the workplace [must be] permeated with discriminatory intimidation, ridicule, and insult that is sufficiently severe or pervasive to alter the conditions of the victim’s employment and create an abusive working environment… [I]n order to be actionable … a… [read post]
25 May 2012, 6:33 am
One court recapped the law on ”hostile work environment” claims as follows: To establish a claim of hostile work environment, the workplace [must be] permeated with discriminatory intimidation, ridicule, and insult that is sufficiently severe or pervasive to alter the conditions of the victim’s employment and create an abusive working environment… [I]n order to be actionable … a… [read post]
25 May 2012, 5:01 am
Judges Create Alter Ego Liability — from Dan Schwartz’s Connecticut Employment Law Blog EEOC: Confederate Flag = Hostile Work Environment? [read post]
24 May 2012, 9:34 pm
Boilermaker union president resorts to litigation against satirical site [Levy; another case on demands for disclosure of anonymous commenters] More on ghastly NY bill to strip protection from anonymous online speech [David Kravets/Wired, Daily Caller, my take] Defending people like Aaron Worthing and Patterico shouldn’t be a left-right matter [Popehat, Tapscott/Examiner, earlier] Maryland and indeed all states need stronger statutory protection against vexatious litigants [Ace of Spades]… [read post]
24 May 2012, 11:11 am
Jamie Ardigo, a former employee of Christopher Burch has filed a $1 million federal lawsuit alleging sexual orientation discrimination, hostile work environment and retaliation. [read post]
24 May 2012, 5:29 am
Donahoe (opinion here), the EEOC recently held that employees wearing t-shirts with Confederate flags may constitute a hostile work environment: In this case, Complainant has alleged that he notified the Postmaster as early as March 2011 of employees repeatedly wearing Confederate flag t-shirts to work, but it was not until May 2011, that the Postmaster finally instructed the supervisor to start sending the employees home to change. [read post]
22 May 2012, 11:30 am
As I’ve argued before, hostile work environment harassment law suppresses a broad range of speech, including speech related to political, religious, social, or artistic matters. [read post]
22 May 2012, 6:20 am
The Faragher/Ellerth defense is an affirmative defense to an employer's vicarious liability for a hostile work environment created by a supervisor of the plaintiff employee. [read post]
21 May 2012, 3:00 am
This is defined as unwelcomed advances, requests for sexual favors, or other conduct perceived as such when the refusal by the victim leads to a hostile, unsafe, and unproductive work environment. [read post]
17 May 2012, 3:29 am
He noted the increasingly hostile environment for CAFOs, in which court and FDA actions have been against the use of antibiotics, there have been state-level bans on gestation crates for gilts and sows and small cage space for laying hens. [read post]
16 May 2012, 12:12 pm
We have previously discussed just how severe behavior must be before it constitutes an unlawful hostile work environment. [read post]
15 May 2012, 6:40 pm
Bashir claimed that after converting to the Islam religion in 2005, her work environment became immediately hostile, where she received harassing comments from her colleagues about her new religion, and her religious headscarf. [read post]
14 May 2012, 7:36 am
For the most part, sexual harassment complaints cannot go the EEOC as a formal discrimination charge unless the plaintiff complains about the hostile work environment pursuant to corporate procedure. [read post]
13 May 2012, 5:09 pm
The senior officer who worked on Operation Glade, investigating police corruption from 2002 to 2005, said all of the journalists – two working for the News of the World, one for the Mirror, one for the Sunday Mirror, one for the Mail on Sunday and two freelancers – had said they would not have used private investigator Steve Whittamore, or other agencies, if they had known how information had been accessed. [read post]
11 May 2012, 7:20 am
They stand for the proposition that an employer is not liable for supervisory harassment if it took effective remedial measures after the employee complained about the hostile work environment. [read post]
11 May 2012, 4:20 am
Sexual harassment can manifest itself in many ways but its essence is always the same: some form of sexual conduct that causes an intimidating, hostile or offensive work environment. [read post]
