Employer Must Face Sex Bias Claim Under New Supreme Court Ruling

A female medical center employee sufficiently alleged that she experienced a hostile work environment when three male employees made sexual overtures to her and human resources didn’t adequately respond to her complaint, a federal court said.

Applying the US Supreme Court’s new test for analyzing cases under Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, Judge Kathryn H. Vratil of the US District Court for the District of Kansas said that Mariana Rodriguez Juarez only had to show that she experienced some harm as a result of the overtures, not a significant amount of harm.

Rodriguez Juarez is a Hispanic ...