I know of a situtation where a state middle management employee is being continously harassed by his female supervisor in the form of denying planned vacation/personal time or waiting until the last minute to grant time while immediately approving lower level employees and other middle management members immediately, by making him responsible and accountable for the actions of employees on every shift in their department even the shifts that he is not scheduled to supervise nor ever sees! Some other notable regular occurances are constantly fluctuating his scheduled work time to the point of sleep deprivation and paging and or calling him two hours after he gets home from a graveyard/swing combination she has created for him for no other important reasons but to say she needs certain forms from him the next day then calls two hours later only to tell him he must come in two hours earlier due to schedule changes.. she caused the other shift supervisor to quit without notice due to unreasonable bullying and unreasonable demands..she often makes statements that seem to grasp beyond her position of authority such as "I'll grant time to you off if and when I feel like it" and You'll work whenever I say you will work and for however long" and so much more.. this type of treatment has gone on for over a year now and has caused near mental breakdown and undue stress in an individual who is not one who bends to hard work.. can you provide any advice as the proper steps for complaint within the department has been ignored.. thanks

What you describe, though certainly unpleasant, is not illegal and does not constitute a hostile work environment under the law. You are free to utilize whatever internal complaint processes are in place but nothing you describe provides for legal recourse.