What is the burden of proving a hostile work environment?
MultiRegion, United States of America
The following excerpt is from Brenner v. City of N.Y., No. 15-3230-cv (2nd Cir. 2016):
To defeat summary judgment on a hostile-work-environment claim, a plaintiff must produce evidence that "the workplace was permeated with discriminatory intimidation, ridicule, and insult, that was sufficiently severe or pervasive to alter the conditions of the victim's employment." Patterson v. Cty. of Oneida, 375 F.3d 206, 227 (2d Cir. 2004) (alterations and internal quotation marks omitted). To carry this burden, Brenner relies on
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