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Hostility At Work Is Expensive (And Wrong)

Late last week, a jury in Missouri awarded $5 million in punitive damages to a woman who proved she was subjected to a hostile work environment because she converted to Islam. According to published...

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Hostility At Work — Expensive, Wrong & OUT OF CONTROL!

I have recently written about cases where discrimination and retaliation led to large verdicts and huge liability for employers.  These cases remind us that hostility at work, in the form of...

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Even Where Retaliation Might Be Lawful, It Is Still Unwise

Can you terminate an employee for participating in an internal investigation at your company that is not connected with a formal EEOC proceeding? Recently, in Townsend v. Benjamin Enterprises, Inc.,...

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