Robert Cooper is the Co-Chair of the Labor & Employment Group and a shareholder at Buchalter Nemer. He has more than 25 years of experience as a management-side labor and employment trial lawyer and commercial business litigator including numerous jury and bench trials, binding arbitrations, administrative law matters and defense of class action lawsuits.
Imagine one of your employees has used a racial slur in the workplace and the object of this offense language threatens physical harm. Your gut reaction may be to move toward firing the first employee and protect the second – but legally, is that the best course of action? Bob Cooper addresses misconceptions about legal issues involving hostile work environment claims.
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