Legal Question in Discrimination Law in Virginia

Re: hostile work environment- bullying and intimidation

Under Virginia law, there's no legal recourse

for employees allegedly subjected to tactics

involving bullying and intimidation on the part of their employer.

Re: hostile work environment- bullying and intimidation

If this case involves some sort of discrimination,

by age, class, race, or gender, there could be a

possible Federal action under various federal statutes

prohibiting discrimination in employment. The "hostile

work environment" phrase relates to sex discrimination

actions. Such a "hostile work environment" needs to be

quite extreme before courts will take notice in terms of

civil legal remedy. What is of some interest is that the

supervisor involved is female. If all of the affected

employees are male, this could be a "reverse sex discrimination"

in the workplace sort of situation, which is rare but it

does occur.

I recommend seeing an attorney who does workplace

discrimination matters. A supervisor who is a bully and

is intimidating does not necessarily give you legal

recourse. Have you tried any internal company policies?

Also, if you did make a discrimination report and were

treated poorly because of that, such activity by the

employer is "retaliatory discrimination" which is also

a federal civil matter.

You need an attorney who does a lot of workplace law

to try to sort this out. State law may not give you much

to go on. Federal law might provide something. Another

remedy is the State Human Relations Commission, if one

exists. I would not give up on this just yet.