Hostile Work Environment

Learn about the definition for this legal term.

What is Hostile Work Environment?

Where an employer imposes or allows the imposition of an environment of steady and pernicious hostility to an employee in relation to sex, race or other protected categories so that a reasonable person would be unable to continue working under those conditions.

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