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f a manager has to explain why telling an employee to stop going to HR was legally defensible, the conversation has already gone poorly.
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DR: An employer defeated a retaliation claim despite a manager linking promotions to an end to HR complaints. The decisive point: the employee’s relevant complaints described bullying and unprofessional conduct without connecting that treatment to unlawful discrimination
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e court’s decision Two complaints, then a