Abusive Language Ruling Clarifies Workplace Rules: Experts
Seth T. Ford, a partner in Troutman Pepper’s Labor and Employment Practice Group, was quoted in the August 4, 2020 Business Insurance article titled, “ Abusive Language Ruling Clarifies Workplace Rules: Experts.”
Attorneys who represent employers praised the ruling.
Seth T. Ford, a partner with Troutman Pepper Hamilton Sanders LLP in Atlanta, said, “I think most parties really like a uniform approach that establishes predictability, and this approach allows employers to hold employees responsible for their misconduct so long as they do so fairly and uniformly.”
“This really is a balancing between … unions’ right to prevent retaliatory decisions against an increased awareness and sensitivity to the impropriety of abusive and hostile conduct, particularly with respect to conduct or remarks that are discriminatory or harassing in nature,” he said.