Workplace Harassment
Montero Law
About | Workplace Harassment
Unlawful workplace harassment occurs when employees suffer severe and pervasive unwanted conduct based on a protected trait, such as age, sex or race. This type of offensive conduct may include name-calling or epithets, offensive jokes, slurs, threats or physical assaults, offensive pictures or objects, or interference with workers’ abilities to perform their jobs. Such behavior may also be considered harassing if workers are forced to endure it in order to maintain their employment. While they can be upsetting, annoyances, petty slights and isolated incidents do not commonly qualify as illegal harassment.
Victims of harassment in the workplace do not only have to be those who are harassed. Rather, anyone who is affected by the inappropriate behavior may claim workplace harassment. Employees’ direct supervisors, supervisors in other areas, co-workers and agents of employers, as well as non-employees, may perpetrate such conduct.
When are employers liable for harassment?
What can employees do about harassment in the workplace?
Working with a lawyer
When harassment occurs in workplaces, it can turn jobs that workers love into ones that they dread. Taking action to stop unwanted conduct may help people protect themselves, as well as their livelihoods. Therefore, those who have experienced, or who are currently experiencing, offensive behavior in the workplace may benefit from consulting with an attorney. At our office a lawyer may help them understand their legal options, as well as guide them through the process of reporting and putting a stop to the harassment
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