TrainingBriefs® Recognizing Inappropriate Humor

What do cable news hosts, political bumper stickers, and religious jokes have in common? The answer is that some of them are funny, while others find them deeply offensive. It’s important to know that inappropriate humor can be the basis for a discrimination law suit.

Title VII of the Civil Rights Act prohibits discrimination on the basis of: Race or color, Sex, Religion, National origin, and Pregnancy. But these are only a few of the especially sensitive areas that can get people in trouble with their humor.