Plaintiff In The Hostile Work Environment

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Quid Pro Quo:
• Plaintiff was an employee of, or applied for a job with the company where the harasser, authority person, was also employed.
• The defendant made the unwanted verbal or physical conduct of the sexual nature.
• Plaintiff would benefits base upon the acceptance’s or rejection’s of alleged sexual words or conducts from the defendant
• Alleged sexual conducts were main causes to plaintiff’s harm
2. Hostile Work Environment: Plaintiff must demonstrate there is a specific basic for imputing the sexual conduct creating the hostile work environment to the employer for the court to determine whether and under what circumstances the employer will be liable in the hostile work environment theory.
• was subjected to insults, jokes,

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