Comments on: Labor and employment roundup https://www.overlawyered.com/2014/08/labor-employment-roundup-30/ Chronicling the high cost of our legal system Sat, 09 Aug 2014 16:47:45 +0000 hourly 1 By: C https://www.overlawyered.com/2014/08/labor-employment-roundup-30/comment-page-1/#comment-300355 Sat, 09 Aug 2014 16:47:45 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/?p=47281#comment-300355

Seventh Circuit says other employees’ having sex on complainant’s desk not hostile work environment when not targeted at gender

To be fair, the employee in question apparently also had sex on someone’s desk, so I don’t think she can complain TOO hard.

]]> By: Chris Hoey https://www.overlawyered.com/2014/08/labor-employment-roundup-30/comment-page-1/#comment-300208 Thu, 07 Aug 2014 19:23:49 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/?p=47281#comment-300208 The illegally occupied fast food outlets may come across a problem I had when faced with an organizing drive in Flint, MI in the 80’s. The local police, members of a union, refused to enforce the trespass law against the union occupiers, asserting it was the organizers’ “right” to invade our premises. It was only when we retained local counsel, and went after the DA and Police officials with threats of a Writ of Mandamus that we were able to get a response for our request to clear out our store.
That was about 30 years ago, and, given the extent of organizing amongst our civil servants these days, I do not hold out hope that the local unionized cops will do the right thing.

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