Author: Frank Kollman

A federal court in Kentucky will permit a female employee to proceed with her hostile environment sexual harassment claim based on gross, sexual conduct by another female coworker.  Bradford v. Dep't of Community Based Services, No. 09-206 (E.D. Ky., February 2, 2012).  In the overwhelming majority of hostile environment cases, male employees are accused by female employees of engaging in the offensive behavior.  The court in Bradford merely...

A woman was hired to work as a nurse, but before she could start, a doctor the surgery center wanted to hire found out that she was going to work there.  Without saying why, the doctor said he would not work in the same office with her.  The center, wanting the doctor badly, fired the nurse before she could start. The nurse, apparently, had testified against the doctor in a sexual harassment case at another facility.  She alleged that this...

A federal court in New York has found that pro-youth remarks are not enough to establish that an older worker was the victim of age discrimination.   Mickelsen v. Bertelsmann Inc., No. 08-cv-10138 (S.D.N.Y., September 19, 2011). Apparently, someone had commented that startup companies did well because they are “full of young creative people who are determined to turn their ideas into products in the shortest time.”  A year later, a corporate...

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