People like to joke about a "hostile work environment." But, what is an actual hostile work environment? Essentially, hostile work environment means the discrimination is perpetrated by co-workers, not by supervisors. A finding of a hostile work environment requires that 1) the employee belong to a protected group, 2) s/he was subjected to unwelcome harassment
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Fifth Circuit Affirms Same Sex Harassment Trial Verdict
By Thomas J. Crane on
Posted in Discrimination
The law must reflect the everyday reality of all Americans. If the law is not grounded in reality, it is no longer "the law." It becomes something oppressive. Judge Tate, a long-time judge on the Fifth Circuit, used to say that an appellate decision should make sense to a barber in Ville Platte, Louisiana. He…