Sexual Harrassment

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Sexual harassment is legally defined as unwelcome sexual behavior in the workplace that adversely affects the terms and conditions of employment. Until the mid 1990`s, though, employees who believed that they were sexually harassed on the job had to demonstrate that they suffered psychological injury to collect a damage reward. Now, thanks to a Supreme Court ruling passed in the mid 1990s, an employee simply must show that an employer allowed a "hostile or abusive …

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…make everybody aware. Trough this the employer feels more comfortable about the difficult subject and allow them to speak out. I believe the best way to get rid of sexual harassment is not to suffer in silence and hope it will go away, but to confront the problem. Works Cited www.eeoc.gov 12, April 2003 www.discriminationattorney.com/ 12, April 2003 www.nupplegal.com 12, April 2003 www.dfehmp.ca.gov 12, April 2003 www.fairmesures.com 18, April 2003 www.absolutresolutions.com 18 April 2003