If retaliation claims could be proven just by pointing to an employer’s handbook, summary judgment would be extinct. This court made clear that policies don’t replace proof. TL;DR: An employee argued that retaliation could be inferred be

cause the employer’s harassment policy required managers to report complaints “up the ladder,” so the decisionmaker must have known. The court rejected that theory as speculation. Retaliation still requires evidence of actual decisionmaker knowledge

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