5.1.7 Retaliation. 60. Last updated June 2024.The Supreme Court held that a Title VII plaintiff challenging a forced job transfer as discriminatory must show some harm from the transfer. Title VII and Section 1981 prohibit employers from retaliating against employees because they have engaged in statutorily protected activity. Title VII covers employers who have 15 or more employees for more than 20 days out of a calendar year. Finally, this report examines sexual harassment in the context of retaliation. Principally through reliance on employee initiative. " Yet employees are often stymied in their efforts to claim the rights Title VII promises. Accordingly, the Court shall dismiss without prejudice Count III with respect to the Plaintiff's 2007 protected activity. Five Towns College, 2014 WL 92690 (E.