
Ending Forced Arbitration of Sexual Harassment Act 2021
Ending Forced Arbitration of Sexual Assault and Sexual Harassment Act of 2021 In early March 2022, Congress voted and passed a new law titled the “Ending Forced Arbitration of Sexual Assault and Sexual Harassment Act of 2021”. This new law effectively ends an employer’s ability “to require employees to arbitrate claims for sexual harassment or sexual assault through a pre-dispute arbitration agreement,” according to the National Law Review. Once Congress voted on this new act, it was sent to President...

How to Know if You are Being Harassed at Work
When it comes knowing whether you are being harassed at work, we can look at how the federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) defines harassment as a first step. According to the EEOC, harassment is “unwelcome conduct that is based on race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), national origin, age (40 or older), disability or genetic information.” Harassment becomes unlawful, according to the EEOC, “where 1) enduring the offensive conduct becomes a condition of continued employment, or 2) the conduct...

What Constitutes Harassment in the Workplace?
The federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) explains on its website that “harassment is unwelcome conduct that is based on race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), national origin, age (40 or older), disability or genetic information.” The agency also states that “harassment becomes unlawful where 1) enduring the offensive conduct becomes a condition of continued employment, or 2) the conduct is severe or pervasive enough to create a work environment that a reasonable person would consider intimidating, hostile, or abusive.”...

How to Handle Sexual Harassment in the Workplace
Victims of sexual harassment should keep at least eight things in mind when making the decision to hold the harasser accountable: Sexual harassment takes many forms, ranging from repeated unwelcome comments on appearance to unwelcome requests for dates and demands for sex in return for a job or promotion. Nonconsensual touching and assault at work are crimes as well as sexual harassment. Men and women can be targeted for sexual harassment. The harasser can be the same sex as...

WHAT IS A HOSTILE WORK ENVIRONMENT?
First of all, sexual harassment is defined by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) as: "unwelcome sexual advances, requests for sexual favors, and other verbal or physical conduct of a sexual nature...when...submission to or rejection of such conduct is used as the basis for employment decisions...or such conduct has the purpose or effect of...creating an intimidating, hostile or offensive working environment." Sexual harassment consists of two types of prohibited conduct: 1) quid pro quo—where submission to harassment is used as...
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