Sexual Harassment

The continuing and ever-growing sophistication of cutting-edge technology has made communication easier. Workplaces once accustomed to paper memos can now collaborate via instant messages and online meetings, and one-on-one cyber interactions. However, those benefits...

Carrabba’s Italian Grill, part of OS Restaurants Services, operates primarily in the food industry with restaurants located throughout the country. The restaurant giant recently made headlines after loosing a massive sexual harassment case — showing that sexual...

Sexual harassment at the workplace is more than just unethical, it is illegal. There are laws at both the state and federal level that offer protection and allow victims to hold their employers accountable for unwelcome sexual advances within the workplace....

No one deserves to work in a hostile environment. However, sexual harassment in the workplace is common. If you are ever a victim of this practice, you can put a stop to it by filing a complaint against your employer with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission...

Our coworkers and supervisors must treat us with respect. Working in an offensive work environment can take away all the enthusiasm you have for your job, and you have the right to fight back if anyone is sexually harassing you at the workplace. More than 6,500 people...

The United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) recently announced it will expand the definition of sex discrimination to include discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity. The announcement is in line with recent Supreme Court...

A former Los Angeles-area Panda Express restaurant worker claims in a lawsuit that she and other employees were forced to participate in a company-sponsored seminar in which they were coerced to strip to their underwear in front of co-workers and strangers who ogled...

Many regular readers of our Kansas City employment law blog know that federal employment law prohibits workplace sexual harassment, as well as retaliation against an employee who reports harassment. Despite federal and state employment laws, before the #MeToo movement...

In the United States, there are generally two different forms of harassment: quid-pro-quo harassment and a hostile work environment. As the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission notes, a hostile work environment occurs when offensive conduct in a workplace is severe...

In almost every workplace, supervisors and managers hold a great deal of power. They may have input on hiring decisions, pay increases and even firing decisions. When they use that position of power to coerce other employees, though, this quid pro quo harassment can...