Case: Discrimination/Hostile Work Environment (E.D. Pa.)

A Pennsylvania federal district court granted summary judgment to Merck on the claims of a male biotechnician that he faced a hostile work environment through sexual harassment and retaliation for complaining, in violation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act, ruling that the offending behavior was neither based on the biotechnician’s sex, nor severe and pervasive, and that the incident in question didn’t qualify for the opposition prong of determining protected activity.