Vicarious Liability

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Employer-favourable 2010

Working in a hostile environment created by others doesn’t always make your employer liable.

When the people abusing you are not your colleagues, your claim against your employer turns on what your employer itself did or failed to do about it, not on how hostile the environment was.

Employee-favourable 1990

A manager humiliating you at work in public can be treated as a dismissal.

Your employer is responsible for how your manager treats you, not just for decisions made at head office.

Employee-favourable 2000

Your employer can be liable if colleagues harass you after you report a serious incident.

Protecting you from foreseeable harm at the hands of colleagues is part of your employer's duty too, not only harm stemming from management decisions. If they know, or reasonably should know, that a complaint led to you being harassed or retaliated against, acting on it isn't optional.