Clinical Setting No Excuse For Hostile Work Environment
Tuesday, July 13, 2010 8:09 | Filled in Risk Management
After resigning her position, a female physician in North Carolina brought a claim of sexual harassment against her former employer, the physician-owner of a medical clinic. Initially the court ruled against her claim, stating that it was “not uncommon in a medical setting to use off-color jokes to “ease the tension.”
The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals reversed the lower court’s decision, refusing to accept the argument that because a medical setting deals with human anatomy on a regular basis, it is somehow “liberated from professional norms.”
Read the case summary at Employment Law Matters - EEOC v. Fairbrook Medical Clinic, P.A., 4th Circ., No. 09-1610, June 18, 2010.
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