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• D-49 Administrator Alleges Hostile Work Environment, Discrimination

A deputy superintendent in Falcon School District 49 has made claims of a hostile work environment and allegations of discrimination over medical issues. Bob Felice, who heads the POWER Zone group of schools that includes Vista Ridge High School, has hired an attorney, who sent a demand letter to the school board in an attempt to resolve the issue. The letter was obtained through an open records request.

• Gazette, The; Colorado Springs, Colo.
• May 25, 2012

• Connecticut Supreme Court Expands Scope Of Hostile Work Environment Protections To Include Sexual Orientation

Employers in Connecticut have a duty to protect employees from harassment based on sexual orientation that is just as compelling as their duty to prev...

• Mondaq Business Briefing
• United States Law Articles in English

• Fifth Circuit: Employee May Proceed with Hostile Work Environment and Constructive Discharge Claims under the ADEA

Jonathan E. "Jon" O'Connell is an Associate in our Northern Virginia office The United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit recently conf...

• Mondaq Business Briefing
• United States Law Articles in English

• Tod v. Cincinnati State Technical & Community College, (Ohio 2011)

Supervisor's unwelcome repeated references to female employee's breast size and "Barbie doll" figure constituted hostile work environment sexual harassment.

• Ohio Supreme Court

• Fifth Circuit Rejects USERRA Hostile Work Environment Claims By Group Of Continental Airlines Pilots

On March 22, 2011, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit issued its decision in Carder v. Continental Airlines, Inc., ruling that there is n...

• Mondaq Business Briefing
• United States Law Articles in English

• 11th Circuit Says Plaintiff Can Show Hostile Work Environment

A plaintiff can show a hostile work environment where both gender- specific and general, indiscriminate vulgarity pervaded the workplace, the en banc 11th Circuit has ruled. The plaintiff was a transportation sales representative and the only female on the sales floor. She frequently heard vulgar and generally offensive language as well as recurrent discussions of sexual topics.

• Lawyers USA
• January 29, 2010

• VOW's Double-Edged Sword: Tax Credits In Exchange For Hostile Work Environment Claims

As part of the effort to make the return to civilian life as seamless as possible for the thousands of troops returning from Afghanistan and Iraq, Pre...

• Mondaq Business Briefing
• United States Law Articles in English

• Fifth Circuit: Employee May Proceed with Hostile Work Environment and Constructive Discharge Claims under the ADEA.

Jonathan E. "Jon" O'Connell is an Associate in our Northern Virginia office The United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit recently confir...

• Mondaq Business Briefing
• Nbr. 2011, January 2011

• Abrasive And Crude Work Environment For All Is Not A Hostile Work Environment

Originally published on the Employer's Law Blog In Miceli v. Lakeland Automotive Corporation, the Appellate Division found that a former female emp...

• Mondaq Business Briefing
• United States Law Articles in English

• Federal courts rebuff faculty discrimination suits: educators face uncertain future with lack of promotion, tenure and increasingly hostile work environment.

Federal judges in Pennsylvania, Illinois and Arizona and have dealt major setbacks to faculty members in lawsuits alleging racial discrimination at th...

• Diverse Issues in Higher Education
• March 17, 2011