Bad things happening at Konami - Nikkei report

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Ataraxias said:

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.

Couldn't tell you about the US as I'm talking from a UK perspective, humiliation is often categorized under bullying.