Boss’s past misbehavior doesn’t automatically make employer liable for future misdeeds
Under North Carolina state law, employers can be held liable for wrongs committed by employees under some limited circumstances. But what if the employer simply knows the supervisor discriminated against a pregnant employee in the past? Does that mean that anytime a subordinate is pregnant, her employer can be liable because it should have known the supervisor would discriminate against another pregnant employee?
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