Workers taunted about their religion or ancestry are entitled to the same legal protection as the victims of sex, race and ethnic harassment, the New Jersey Supreme Court said in the case of a police officer whose colleagues called him a "dirty Jew." An appeals court had said the behavior amounted to locker-room antics and "breaking of chops" and wasn't actionable, but the state high court reinstated a harassment finding, adding to its stack of pro-plaintiff rulings in workplace discrimination cases.
August 05, 2008 at 12:00 AM
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Workers taunted about their religion or ancestry are entitled to the same legal protection as the victims of sex, race and ethnic harassment, the New Jersey Supreme Court said in the case of a police officer whose colleagues called him a “dirty Jew.”
The unanimous court on July 31 reinstated a verdict against the Haddonfield Police Department and a number of its officers and patrolmen for directing anti-Semitic taunts, harassment and slurs at Patrolman Jason Cutler.
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