Sentence examples for offensive work environment from inspiring English sources
And it must affect an employee's working conditions or create a hostile or offensive work environment.
It prohibits verbal or physical conduct which has the intent or effect of unreasonably interfering with an individual's work performance, or creating an intimidating, hostile, or offensive work environment on or off campus.
Earlier this year, the commission settled a two-year-old Federal lawsuit against the company involving 300 women who the agency determined were subjected to a sexually hostile and offensive work environment at the automobile plant.
Hostile-work-environment harassment law is also often defended (though in my view that defense is inadequate) on the grounds that it's limited to speech that is so "severe or pervasive" that it creates an "offensive work environment". This proposed rule conspicuously omits any such limitation.
Beyond the moral implications of racism, racist remarks foster a hostile and offensive work environment.
3. When sexual conduct unreasonably interferes with a person's work performance or creates an intimidating, hostile or offensive work environment.
But he said the jurors had little difficulty deciding that she had failed to meet her burden of proving that she had suffered an offensive or abusive work environment.
Brown created a "hostile, offensive and intimidating work environment," according to the investigation that was undertaken after complaints from enlisted personnel and junior officers.
Homan-Ross, now 61, was one of seven plaintiffs in a lawsuit filed against CBS alleging an "offensive and hostile" work environment for female employees.
Laura Boyce, who worked for the couple for seven months in 2007, claims Sheryl Lowe created an "extremely sexually offensive and hostile work environment... behaving in a... perverted, disgusting and crude manner".
But offensive behavior that creates a hostile work environment, although often not thought of as unethical behavior, is the leading reason people leave their jobs, said Patricia J. Harned, president of the center.
