THE LEADERS IN EMPLOYEE JUSTICE

Sexual harassment violates both state and federal anti-discrimination laws. It’s a type of sex discrimination that involves unwanted sexual advances and/or conduct. Sexual harassment can generally be put into two categories

• Employment is conditioned on submitting to the unwanted sexual conduct or advance.  For example, if your manager states you will be fired if you do not sleep with him.
• The unwanted sexual conduct creates a hostile environment. If there is no tangible personal action, the behavior must be so severe or pervasive that it in effect changed the victim’s working conditions, making it a sexually hostile work environment. The work environment is considered hostile if the harassment is directed at you, you witness the harassment in your immediate work environment, or there is widespread sexual favoritism in your workplace.

Important to Note: It is important to remember that sexual harassment can be committed by someone of the same sex and though women experience sexual harassment in the workplace disproportionately, men can be victims of sexual harassment as well.