Defining Hostile Work Environment: What It Really Means - Florida Employment Lawyer Jonathan Pollard

Florida employment lawyer and Super Lawyer Jonathan Pollard explains the concept of hostile work environment and what it really means.

Pollard has a long track record of representing working people often at tremendous cost to himself. But he is blunt to a fault: In this video, he explains that most people who claim they are in a "hostile work environment" do not understand what that means. Most people have workplace grievances that are mostly interpersonal disputes or petty interpersonal drama. Most people claiming hostile work environment have not had their rights violated. Instead, they have just had their feelings hurt. There are no laws against hurt feelings.

A hostile work environment means harassment based on a protected class (race, sex, religion, age, etc) where the harassment is so terrible or so pervasive that it creates an outright abusive work environment.

Pollard has appeared in or on the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, NPR, PBS News Hour, Inc. Magazine, Bloomberg, and more. He has more than 75,000 followers on LinkedIn, where he frequently posts about law, business, and life.