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Sexual Harassment
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Sexual harassment is any kind of sexual behavior that is unwelcome and/ or inappropriate for the work place. (http;//www.lawguru.com/faq/15.1.html pg 1) There are four examples of sexual harassment: making sexual advances, making solicitations, making sexual requests, and making demands for sexual compliance. This includes verbal harassment and visual harassment such as posters, cartoons, and drawings. Sexual harassment has an impact on men, but it has a larger impact on women in the world today. In some jobs women get grabbed by there bosses, and they often feel like they can’t tell anyone or they will lose their job. This is one of the four types of sexual harassment. Another one is hostile environment, which is when an employer feels uncomfortable about his sex around his or her supervisor. This does not include demands for exchanges for job benefits. (http://www.discriminationattorney.com/harasswk.html) If one employee is telling sexual related jokes or comments and the other employee got offended by them, then it would be sexual harassment. But if they were joking together then it would not be. Sexual harassment is often thought of as a man harassing a women but it can be women harassing a man. Sexual harassment is also found outside the workplace. They just recently updated a law that says you can sue one another for sexual harassment even if it is outside the workplace. For example, a doctor touches women in a place where she feels uncomfortable and the place he is touching has nothing to do with why she is there. She also tells him to stop but he continues to do it. Here are a couple of examples who could be harassers in their business that can be sued: 1. A person’s physician, psychotherapist, or dentist 2. Attorneys 3. Marriage, family or child counselors, licensed clinical social workers, and masters of social work 4. Real estate agents and real estate appraisers 5. Teachers In order for the sexual harassment to be illegal the victim must have made a remark to let the harasser to know to stop the behavior. The victim must not be able to leave the situation without any trouble. It doesn’t mean they have to be restrained. There is a case where a man grabbed a women’s breast in a bar. This would not be considered sexual harassment outside the work place. It could be assault or battery. The only reason it wouldn’t be sexual harassment is because it is outside the work office. If it were a boss who grabbed his employee inside the office it would be taken to court and would be sexual harassment. In some cases the employer may not discipline the employ/harasser due to the rights of the accused. If you hear that another employee is being sexual harassed it is your duty as a manager to investigate. (http:www.ahipubs.com/FAQ/discrimination/sexual_discrimination.htlm) In the Military sexual harassment and discrimination still go on to this day.
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