Does your boss bully you? We get this call a lot. The boss is a jerk, mistreats employees, and is verbally abusive. It is awful, it is unacceptable, it is bad for business. More often than not, it is perfectly legal. Bullying is only illegal when it violates certain employment
Simple Q&A on New York Hostile Work Environment Law Q: How Bad Does it Have to Be? A: Really bad. To win a hostile work environment claim, a plaintiff has to prove that that his or her workplace was “so severely permeated with discriminatory intimidation, ridicule, and insult that the
One remark is not enough to constitute discrimination. When can you bring an employment discrimination lawsuit based on stray remarks? One comment will almost never, standing alone, make a discrimination lawsuit. Even an extreme statement, such as a racial slur, sexual joke, pornography, or the like is not sufficient to
