Assertion: harasser's behavior | /r/HasProperty | severe
Facets:
value: to create a hostile work environment
type: PURPOSE
value: sufficiently
type: DEGREE
value: in order to considered illegal harassment
type: PURPOSE
Source sentences:
text: Additionally, in order to be considered illegal harassment, the harassing behaviors must be severe, relentless and repetitive, rather than an individual isolated event.
text: Instead, an employee only has to show that he or she had a good faith, reasonable belief that the harassing behavior was racially motivated and was sufficiently severe or pervasive to create a hostile work environment.
text: But, if the behavior is frequent and severe, it is more likely to match up with the typical characteristics of sexual harassment.
text: An important standard in U.S. federal harassment law is that to be unlawful, the offending behavior either must be "severe or pervasive enough to create a work environment that a reasonable person would consider intimidating, hostile, or abusive," or that enduring the offensive conduct becomes a condition of continued employment; e.g. if the employee is fired or threatened with firing upon reporting the conduct.
text: But if the evidence is clear that the inappropriate behavior was either frequent or severe, a company shouldn’t be afraid to fire the worker.