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Picking up where the EEOC left off earlier this year with its harassment guidance for employers that postings on a social media account targeting employees can contribute to a hostile work environment, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals recently reached the same conclusion in an opinion issued last week.
The case involved a staff psychologist in a federal prison who discovered that a co-worker responsible for overseeing the safety of guards, prison staff, and inmates in the unit where she worked operated an Instagram account. But this was no ordinary Instagram account. It was chock full of posts about sexually