Top : Sexual Harrassment

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• Sexual Harrassment In The Workplace

  By n a - Sexual harassment is far more prevalent in the workplace than most people realize. A Cornell Law Review article entitled "Exacerbating the Exasperated: Title VII Liability of Employers for Sexual Harassment" reported that between 40% to 90% of women in the United States workforce have been the victims of some form of sexual harassment on the job. As even conservative Ninth Circuit Judge Kozinski recognized: "It is a sobering revelation that every woman - every woman - who has spent time in the workforce in the last two decades can tell at least one story about being the object of sexual harassment." (Added: 3-Mar-2006 Hits: 1325 )

• Sexual Harassment by Non-Employees

  By Rhoda Goetz - Harassment by Non-Employees is a form of sexual harassment that most employers think they can do nothing about. Think again. (Added: 3-Mar-2006 Hits: 964 )

• Company Liability: Sexual Harassment and Inappropriate Rewards

  By Rhoda Goetz - Sexual Favoritism is a form of sexual harassment that needs definition. Do you know what it means? Did you know that the absence of favoritism can be sexual harassment? (Added: 3-Mar-2006 Hits: 1057 )

• Preventing Sexual Harassment in the Workplace

  By n a - As an employer, you have a responsibility to maintain a workplace that is free of sexual harassment. This is your legal obligation, but it also makes good business sense. If you allow sexual harassment to flourish in your workplace, you will pay a high price in terms of poor employee morale, low productivity, and lawsuits (Added: 3-Mar-2006 Hits: 1216 )

• Still Outside the Good Ol' Boys Club (washingtonpost.com)

  By Amy Joyce - "Forty years after the Civil Rights Act and just days after news of high-profile sex-discrimination cases involving Wal-Mart and Morgan Stanley, a new report by the National Partnership for Women & Families has found that women of all races are still being discriminated against in the workplace." (Added: 8-Jan-2005 Hits: 1068 )

• Reporting Sexual Harassment to Your Employer - from Lawyers.com

  By Bernice Sandler - If you haven't been successful stopping sexual harassment by yourself, you must ask your employer for support. Here are some important tips to follow. (Added: 10-Oct-2003 Hits: 792 )

• Defining Sexual Harassment - from Lawyers.com

  By Lloyd Zimmerman - Excellent explanation of what is and isn't included under the term sexual harassment (Added: 10-Oct-2003 Hits: 992 )

• Pursuing A Sexual Harassment Claim - from Lawyers.com

  By Bernice Sandler - If you've exhausted your alternatives for dealing with sexual harassment at work, by confronting the perpetrator or asking for help in your workplace, it may be time to consider more formal approaches. This article explains how to pursue filing a sexual harassment claim. (Added: 10-Oct-2003 Hits: 612 )

• SUPREME COURT OPENS DOOR TO HARASSMENT SUITS

  By Neil Kuenn - Two significant decisions of the United States Supreme Court have opened the door to more sexual-harassment suits and employers may be sued even for acts of harassment they didn't know about. (Added: 8-Sep-2003 Hits: 342 )

• Sexual Harassment - Case Closed?

  By Dave Bowman - Workplace sexual harassment is a serious problem in the United States, and the dimensions of the problem continue to expand. In fact, the largest sexual harassment case in the nation's history was filed recently by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EECO) and 350 female employees against Mitsubishi Motor Manufacturing of America. The total award in this class-action suit was $34 million, nearly $100,000 for each plaintiff. (Added: 8-Sep-2003 Hits: 441 )

• Sexual Harassment in the Workplace

  By About.com - What is Sexual Harssment and what should you do to prevent Sexual Harassment? (Added: 25-Jan-2003 Hits: 381 )

• Sexual Harassment Statistics

  By About.com - Feature documents data regarding harassment in the workplace and in education. Find survey results and numbers from the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. (Added: 25-Jan-2003 Hits: 279 )

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