Bad things happening at Konami - Nikkei report

[Ataraxias]

Wyrdness said:

Ataraxias said:

This sounds dandy, until you run across the large amount of the population that internalizes constructive criticism as personal attacks.   Then everything becomes a form of humiliation.  

Let's move away from performance then.    

Someone starts a minor fire in the office kitchen.  The next day everyone is required to attend fire safety training and everyone knows why.  Humiliation?

This type of implied humiliation seems to fall into the same arena as the various implied discrimination cases and the courts go either way on them.

The problem with your argument is that you're using comparisons that have far different contexts to them then what the article is saying, when someone is giving that fire safety meeting they won't flat out say you're here because Annie started a fire no they wouldn't even mention names doing it even some people are aware of what happened, often the staff are notified to put the incident behind them and be glad no one was hurt. It would just be a usual health and safety meeting, a boss circulating someone's name through the company is not constructive criticism no matter what comparison is used.

Let's back up: 

Are there federal or state laws that prohibit an employer from employee humiliation?

There is no state or federal laws that prohibit an employer from being mean or rude to an employee. The exception to this would be if your employer acted on the workplace humiliation on the grounds of illegal discrimination; such as your age, race, gender, religion, or disability

Read more: http://www.justanswer.com/topics-humiliation/#ixzz3hnmUkguS

I've tried to find actual cases based on humiliation and haven't.    I can easily find workplace bullying cases which is more narrow.  And other cases which support the above statement where the basis of humiliation comes from discrimation.

I'm genuinely interested to know if a precendent has been set.

 

Edit: Through Google Scholar one can find multitudes of articles pleading and making the case that humilation related concepts need to be defined in law.  But none so far that says that's actually happened.