HI · jury_instructions
Haw. Civil Jury Instr. 16.8
CONSTRUCTIVE TERMINATION: INTOLERABLE WORKING CONDITIONS
In determining whether working conditions are intolerable,
you must consider whether the conditions would be intolerable to
a reasonable employee under similar circumstances. From that
standpoint, you may consider what options, if any, were
reasonably available to plaintiff(s), the length of time
plaintiff(s) remained on the job under those working conditions,
and what a reasonable employee would have done under similar
circumstances. Trivial or isolated acts of misconduct by an
employer are generally insufficient to be deemed intolerable.1
1 Watson v. Nationwide Insurance Co., 823 F.2d 360 (9th Cir.
1987).
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