Sexual Harassment Law Blog

Sexual harassment claims still account for nearly 17% of all claims received by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (“EEOC”), with more than 6,750 complaints of sexual harassment filed in 2016 alone. And, the damage awards continue to grow.
A federal judge recently...

Recently, the International House of Pancakes made headlines over the news it was changing its names to International House of Burgers or IHOB. That was a publicity stunt, but it’s probably not a coincidence the announcement of the phony name change occurred about the same time as that of two...

While the #MeToo movement has brought international attention to the pervasiveness of sexual harassment in the workplace, its most noted effect has been in bringing down well-known offenders in top fields. #MeToo formally began in late 2017, but sexual harassment lawsuits against major companies...

Sexual harassment in the workplace is not always taken as seriously as it should be. Young employees like Emily Houser, an 18-year-old Pennsylvania resident, are often unprotected when facing the unwanted advances of older managers.
Since the age of 16, Houser had been working at a local...

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...

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...

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...