{"id":3052,"date":"2019-02-13T06:21:42","date_gmt":"2019-02-13T06:21:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dsgordonlaw.com\/dir\/?p=3052"},"modified":"2023-05-20T23:28:48","modified_gmt":"2023-05-20T23:28:48","slug":"can-false-rumors-serve-as-the-basis-for-claims-of-sexual-harassment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dsgordonlaw.com\/dir\/can-false-rumors-serve-as-the-basis-for-claims-of-sexual-harassment\/","title":{"rendered":"Can False Rumors Serve as the Basis for Claims of Sexual Harassment?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In&nbsp;<em>Parker v. Reema Consulting<\/em>, the Fourth Circuit addresses a claim where a female subordinate alleges that she was subjected of repeated rumors of sleeping with her supervisor to secure a promotion.&nbsp; Importantly, company managers participated in the spreading of the rumors. To state a claim under Title VII for a hostile work environment because of sex, the plaintiff must allege workplace harassment that (1) was \u201cunwelcome\u201d; (2) was based on the employee\u2019s sex; (3) was \u201csufficiently severe or pervasive to alter the conditions of employment and create an abusive atmosphere\u201d; and (4) was, on some basis, imputable to the employer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In this case, The Fourth Circuit agrees that these sex based rumors can serve as the basis for a hostile environment claim and that the continuous nature of the harassment was sufficiently pervasive as to interfere in her work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/law.justia.com\/cases\/federal\/appellate-courts\/ca4\/18-1206\/18-1206-2019-02-08.html\">https:\/\/law.justia.com\/cases\/federal\/appellate-courts\/ca4\/18-1206\/18-1206-2019-02-08.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In&nbsp;Parker v. Reema Consulting, the Fourth Circuit addresses a claim where a female subordinate alleges that she was subjected of repeated rumors of sleeping with her supervisor to secure a promotion.&nbsp; Importantly, company managers participated in the spreading of the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/dsgordonlaw.com\/dir\/can-false-rumors-serve-as-the-basis-for-claims-of-sexual-harassment\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[275],"tags":[288,326,274,325],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsgordonlaw.com\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3052"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsgordonlaw.com\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsgordonlaw.com\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsgordonlaw.com\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsgordonlaw.com\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3052"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dsgordonlaw.com\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3052\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3102,"href":"https:\/\/dsgordonlaw.com\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3052\/revisions\/3102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsgordonlaw.com\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsgordonlaw.com\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsgordonlaw.com\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}