Thursday, February 25, 2016

Would Trump Overturn "Hostile Work Environment"?



The EEOC is an executive branch agency that issues guidelines on employment discrimination. Courts eventually approve (the legal term is defer) or overturn them. Since 1986, the Supreme Court—even with conservative justices ruling— has deferred to the EEOC’s broad definition of “hostile work environment.” This term has been interpreted by the EEOC and courts to prohibit demeaning words used against women, such as bitch (and much worse), when these words are pervasive and interfere with her work. Recall that it was the aggressive questioning, i.e., the work of the female Fox News reporter, that was the subject of Trump’s deeply demeaning “bleeding” insult.  Is more of this in the future of working women in America?

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