If you experience sexual harassment at work, the mistreatment could cause significant emotional distress and interfere with your job in various ways. Sometimes, sexual harassment leads to a demotion, the inability to keep working due to a hostile environment and...
Sexual Harassment
What constitutes sexual harassment?
As an employee, you should not dread going to work because of a hostile environment. No person should face discrimination of any form, including harassment based on sex or gender. Sexual harassment should be unacceptable in the workplace, but to report it, you must...
What determines credibility in a sexual harassment claim?
The unfortunate reality of the workplace is that sexual harassment exists. This is a broad problem with significant and damaging consequences, but in many environments, victims of this abuse do not receive the same attention and justice. Perceptions of sexual...
A basic explanation of the state’s sexual harassment laws
Federal laws protect workers in New York from sexual harassment, but state laws are also in place to help prevent it in the workplace. It is important that workers understand the different ways sexual harassment can occur and what to do when they face such harassment...
What is the Human Rights Law?
Proving any type of harassment is difficult, but pleading your case to prove sexual harassment can be very tough. Often, the laws concerning this type of harassment do not help. That is why New York lawmakers made changes to the state's law. The New York City Equal...
Perception of male victims of sexual harassment
The common assumption is that sexual harassment in the workplace follows the paradigm of a male harasser and a female victim. Nevertheless, according to PsyPost, male victims are responsible for between 16% and 17% of all sexual harassment complaints. In other words,...
3 examples of sexual harassment
Sexual harassment can be difficult to recognize. The law takes into consideration the severity of the offense and the frequency of the behavior. For example, an isolated incident or an offhand comment at your expense may not be enough for you to lodge a sexual...
Sexual harassment victims often face termination, retaliation
Statistics show that only a small number of those who experience work-related sexual harassment in New York or across the nation ever come forward and report it. Many workers neglect to call attention to what is happening to them because they are fearful of the...
How long do you have to file sexual harassment charges?
If you have recently experienced sexual harassment at work, you need to immediately assess your options. The impact of experiencing sexual harassment could affect you in many ways, causing high levels of anxiety and even depression. In addition, you could have a sense...
Supporting an employee experiencing sexual harassment
Sexual harassment includes, among many other behaviors, unwanted verbal, physical, and visual sexual advances from one person to another. Unfortunately, this is relatively common in the workplace, either between co-workers or between supervisors and subordinates....