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: ACS BlogN.J. Supreme Court Says Religious Slurs Create a Hostile Workplace
The New Jersey Supreme Court ruled that a person bringing a claim of workplace discrimination based on religion does not have a higher burden of proof than those charging discrimination based on gender or race.
“Consistent with this state’s strong policy against any form of discrimination in the workplace, we hold that the threshold for demonstrating a religion-based, discriminatory hostile work environment cannot be higher or more stringent than the threshold that applies to sexually or racially hostile workplace environment claims,” Justice Jaynee LaVecchia wrote for the Court.
Full post as published by ACS Blog on August 10, 2008 (boomark / email).
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