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Harassment
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Employment Law Spotlight
Interns and Anti-Discrimination Laws: Is Wang Employers’ High-Water Mark?
So you may have heard -- a federal court in New York has dismissed an unpaid intern’s hostile work environment sexual harassment claim against a media company pursuant to the New York City…
Minnesota Family Law Blog
Minnesota Harassment Elements and Concepts
By Jason Brown
Harassment in Minnesota is defined by statute and a specific process is in place to obtain a Harassment Restraining Order. Here are some key elements: Harassment: Single incident of assault,…
Gender and the Law Prof Blog
Harrassed for being Unmanly
By John Kang
From the ABA Journal: "Both the worker, Kerry Woods, and his crew superintendent, Chuck Wolfe, were heterosexual men, according to the opinion. But Woods did not conform to Wolfe’s view…
EEOC Year-End Countdown
“Macho Man Discrimination” — The EEOC Scores Fifth Circuit Win In Gender-Stereotype Suit
By Dennis A. Clifford and Christopher J. DeGroff As we previously blogged here, the EEOC has historically paid particular interest to cases involving gender stereotypes, with various degrees of success. As…
Employment Discrimination Report
Employee Has No Duty To Mitigate Emotional Damages In Harassment Case
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…
Employment Discrimination Report
Israel Reports Steep Increase In Sexual Harassment Complaints
Noam Barkan of Ynet News has reported that Israeli Economy Ministry’s EEOC has released the past year’s statistics relating to discrimination charges filed with it. Workplace sexual harassment complaints increased…
Education Law Prof Blog
Bully
By Derek Black
This past April, the documentary Bully was released. Last night, I finally got the chance to watch it. While the stories in the documentary were not "news" to me, it…
Employment Discrimination Report
Labor Day Trio: EEOC Files Three Cases Based Upon Egregious Harassment
Sexual harassment – streaming security camera footage of the breasts of a female employee onto a desk computer; racial harassment – using the “N-word” to Black employees; and national origin harassment - refusing…
Labor Law Prof Blog
Connolly on Victimless Harassment – UK Style
Friend of the blog, Michael Connolly (University of Surrey (UK)), having reading Charlie's post from this past Monday on Battaglia v. UPS on "victimless harassment," brings to our attention a…
Employment Discrimination Report
Ontario Owners Held Personally Liable For Defunct Company’s Harassment Of Employee
Ontario employers beware: owners and managers of a defunct corporation may be personally liable under the Human Rights Code for damages awarded against the corporation. We thank the law firm…