Manatt Employment and Labor Partner Stephanie Roeser wrote in an article for Law360 about uncertainty created by the California Supreme Court’s decision in Bailey v. San Francisco District Attorney's Office regarding what constitutes a hostile work environment under the California Fair Employment and Housing Act and, in particular, whether one slur may be sufficient to support an employee’s case for harassment. In light of this decision, Roeser wrote, “It remains unclear what comments or conduct will meet California's ‘severe’ requirement going forward and where prior precedent that isolated comments do not create a hostile work environment now stands.”
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