Did the Jets cross the teasing and off-handed comments line to create a hostile work environment for Sainz?

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The captain then allegedly attempted "to rectify the hostile work environment and persuade him against suicide" by calling the officer.

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Is Loranzana the victim of a discriminatory and hostile work environment or an opportunist who is retaliating against a company that terminated her?

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The image evoked by competition is often a hostile work environment is a dog-eat-dog world or just short of a fascist regime where only the strongest and ruthless survive.

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With nowhere to go and nowhere to hide in a hostile work environment, the situation looks increasingly grim for Rudolph until, without warning, the owner of the business personally intervenes in an utterly unexpected manner.

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In fact, Hurd urged the firm to let the workers go, because their loud argument could cause another kind of legal problem: A female employee sensitive about sex discrimination could feel that a supervisor who agreed with Rep. Akin was hostile to women, which could open up the employer to a hostile work environment sex discrimination suit.

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Mr. Bulrice created an intimidating, hostile, and offensive work environment and, on one occasion, threw a binder at Mrs.

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Most employees describe the Ambassador as aggressive, bullying, hostile, and intimidating, which has resulted in an extremely difficult, unhappy, and uncertain work environment.

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