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Thursday, May 24, 2007

 

Sexual Harassment At Workplace - Legal Issues

First of all, let us have a clear cut picture of what sexual harassment is.
According to the Law, requesting for a sexual favor, any physical or verbal conduct of a sexual nature, purpose or effect of creating hostile and offensive environment is categorized as sexual harassment.
There is no sexual partiality for victims. A victim can be a man as well.
Moreover, it is not necessary that both the persons are of different sex.
There are three cases of legal implications for sexual harassment.
First, the harasser can be anyone. He or she can be a supervisor, an agent, non-employee or some co-worker.
Second, the victim can be anyone who is harassed by an offensive behavior.
Third, the behavior of the harasser must be worth being called bad.
If someone is the victim of sexual harassment, he or she should remember place, date and time and the witness, if any. Also, any possible minor detail which can be useful should be kept in mind.
Victims should firmly tell the person to stop such conduct immediately and if even after this, he or she continues to do things, he or she must be notified.
Now, the next question is where should one file the application for the sexual harassment. You may file a case at EEOC (Equal Employment Opportunity Commotion) and proper state agency can also be a great help to you.
If you are an employer and you do not create any policy to stop such conducts, no victim can blame you and you can not be held.
But, if you are an employer and even after knowing everything, you do not take any actions, a victim can file a case against you.

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