{"id":6091,"date":"2022-01-01T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-01-01T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/?p=6091"},"modified":"2021-11-23T13:17:25","modified_gmt":"2021-11-23T18:17:25","slug":"plaintiffs-verdict-on-retaliation-and-hostile-work-environment-affirmed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/?p=6091","title":{"rendered":"Plaintiff\u2019s Verdict on Retaliation and Hostile Work Environment Affirmed"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Warden directed subordinates \u201cto figure out how to stop employees from using Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) leave.\u201d Plaintiff was concerned that the directive constituted unlawful disability discrimination, reported the directive to her superiors, and received discipline. Whether that directive was unlawful or not, Human Rights Act protected plaintiff\u2019s report from retaliation as long as plaintiff made the report with \u201creasonable good faith.\u201d Defendant\u2019s agreement with, or failure to object to, an instruction waives error. Defendant waived error in awarding attorney fees, and applying the lodestar calculation and a multiplier, by failing to raise the same issue on appeal as it did in circuit court. Remanded to determine attorney fees on appeal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.courts.mo.gov\/file.jsp?id=180256\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Shelley Gray vs. Missouri Department of Corrections<\/em><\/a><br>Missouri Court of Appeals, Western District &#8211; WD83739<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Warden directed subordinates \u201cto figure out how to stop employees from using Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) leave.\u201d Plaintiff was concerned that the directive constituted unlawful disability discrimination, reported the directive to her superiors, and received discipline. Whether that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/?p=6091\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6091","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6091"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6091\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6092,"href":"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6091\/revisions\/6092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}