Case: Discrimination/Hostile Work Environment (M.D. Fla.)

A Florida federal district court denied a 17-year-old female restaurant worker’s renewed motion for judgment as a matter of law and alternative motion for new trial on her hostile work environment claim under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act and negligent supervision claim under state law against Wendy’s International, LLC, finding the jury reasonably concluded that the alleged harasser’s conduct wasn’t unwelcome and that Wendy’s neither knew nor should have known about the employee’s unfitness.

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