Sexual Harassment Law Blog

Although movies and TV shows would have us believe that workplace sexual harassment is dramatic, scandalous, and obvious (and that karma always comes back to bite the harasser), it’s not so easy to tell when you or your coworkers are being harassed in real life.
The Equal Employment...

As Hollywood’s casting couch predators are exposed in the media, and scandals involving politicians make headlines, it is neither entertainment nor politics that involve the highest harassment risks for employees.
According to researchers from the Center for American Progress, people...

Have you ever complained to management about a co-worker’s lewd jokes or annoying flirtation, only to have your employer ignore your sexual harassment concerns?
Retail employees know that it can take continued complaints to get any action out of their superiors, but ignoring complaints...

Working women who have never been subject to some type of sexual harassment are the exception. Of course, degrees of sexual harassment vary, and there’s a huge difference between a colleague telling a woman she’s attractive and actual pressure for sex.
Some women may shrug off the...

The tech industry is still very much a man’s world. In this world, where women are underrepresented, sexual harassment is rampant, according to numerous reports.
A startling 60 percent of women surveyed in Silicon Valley say they have been sexual harassment victims. Now that this ugly...

The nation’s largest retail chains continue to face a wide range of sexual harassment claims, despite continued efforts by private parties and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) to enforce Title VII of the Civil Rights Act.
An alarming number of these sexual harassment...

Yet again, Dolgencorp dba Dollar General Stores, Inc. is the target of a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) sexual harassment lawsuit claiming the retail chain violated federal law when a Red Banks, Mississippi store manager allegedly subjected female employees to sexual...