hostile work environment

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What constitutes a *hostile* work environment?
Is a hostile work environment a form of harrassment?
Can it be prosecuted the same way that sexual harrassment is?
What kind of criteria must be present to constitute harrassment?

Thank you for any insight.

 

[ALawyer]

It is heavily spelled out on FreeAdvice.com under employment law / discrimination and harassment.