Touching in the “Crotch Area” Only A Few Times Doesn’t Create a Hostile Work Environment
The Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals held that a female African American travelling phlebotomist’s claims of hostile work environment, constructive discharge, and retaliation for allegedly failing to adequately mitigate sexual and racial harassment by a nursing home patient were properly dismissed. The patient’s conduct was not so severe that it rose to the level of actionable hostile work environment sexual harassment. Likewise, the employee...
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