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Not “hostile” to require parking before clocking in

Not “hostile” to require parking before clocking in

Not “hostile” to require parking before clocking in

An employee for a nonprofit housing development corporation in Philadelphia complained that her employer had created a racially motivated hostile work environment by asking her to stop her practice of clocking in to her job on the 17th floor of a Center City office building and then leaving to find a permanent parking space for her car before she actually settled in to start work. The diversion usually took between 20 and 40 minutes to accomplish. She said that the reprimand, and subsequent monitoring to assure compliance with the policy, amounted to harassment based on her race and/or gender. A federal District Court has held that she did not provide sufficient evidence to survive a motion...

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