Female Koch Ag Leader Advances Harassment, Reprisal, Pay Claims

Koch Ag & Energy Solutions LLC must face a female employee’s hostile environment claims, as her allegations satisfy both a new Supreme Court test and the traditional severe-or-pervasive standard, a Kansas federal judge ruled.

Assessing allegations of sexual harassment for severity or pervasiveness is the guidepost federal judges have used under Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act for decades, the US District Court for the District of Kansas said Monday. But the justices in Muldrow v. City of St. Louis may have altered the hostile work environment analysis when they shifted the landscape for Title VII discrimination claims ...