Sexual Harassment

Sexual harassment in the workplace can affect employees emotionally, professionally and even financially. Many workers are unsure about what behavior qualifies as harassment or what steps they should take when uncomfortable situations arise at work. Understanding...

Sexual harassment frequently happens to employees in the workplace. It can take many different forms, such as unwanted touching, repeated sexual advances, crude jokes, insults and much more. There are even instances of quid pro quo sexual harassment, where someone in...

Most sexual harassment allegations do not result in lawsuits. Companies can theoretically handle sexual harassment matters internally. Provided that the professionals in management and human resources respond to allegations appropriately, the organization fielding the...

When you get a job at a new workplace, the last thing you want to encounter is sexual harassment. Such a dehumanizing experience can be made worse by the realization that sexual harassment has been normalized within the company. The attitudes of fellow employees...

“Quid pro quo” sexual harassment involves situations wherein one’s employment, opportunities or benefits are explicitly or implicitly conditioned upon the acceptance of unwanted sexual advances or demands by an employer, manager, supervisor or someone else. In simple...

How do you handle it when your client, co-worker or boss makes some loaded comment that references your looks, your body or your sex life? This is a common issue faced by working women all the time. Roughly one-fifth of men polled by the New York Times admitted that...

There are laws to prevent sexual harassment in the workplace and protect those who report it, both on the federal and state levels. However, it remains among the most reported misconducts against workers in the workplace. Every year, thousands of workers, regardless...

Quid pro quo is a Latin phrase that translates to “something for something” or “this for that.” In the workplace, quid pro quo sexual harassment is an exchange that occurs between a person in a position of authority or power and a subordinate. You can think of it as...

It’s often assumed that sexual harassment in the workplace occurs because of an attraction between two workers. This may not go both ways, of course, but this may not stop one worker from wanting to be in a relationship with the other. The result could be harassment...

While people could sexually harass you at work in many ways, the law considers two forms. If you wish to bring a legal claim about the harassment, you need to do so based on one of these two grounds: quid pro quo or a hostile work environment. Let’s see how they...