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p; Employees and supervisors often assume that any inappropriate physical contact is automatically a hostile work environment. But the Eleventh Circuit continues to apply one of the strictest “severe or pervasive” standards in the country. This case shows just how high t
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at bar is. This is part two of the series. Yesterday’s post covered why a criminal subpoena did not count as Title VII “participation.” Today, we look at the employee’s host
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e work environment claim. TL;DR: An employee described two incidents where a coworker tried to kiss her and later attempted to pull her onto his lap, along with occasional