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Article: Court upholds employer defense; Supreme Court rejects strict liability for sexual harassment claim.(News)
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- June 21, 2004
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Byline: MARK A. HOFMANN
WASHINGTON-Employers are applauding last week's Supreme Court ruling that allows an employee who voluntarily quit over alleged sexual harassment by supervisors to pursue an action against her former employer.
That's because the justices also affirmed, by an 8-to-1 margin, in Pennsylvania State Police vs. Nancy Drew Suders that, under most circumstances, an employer must be given the right to defend itself against liability in such cases. It can do so, the justices said, by demonstrating that it had an effective policy in place to correct sexual harassment and that the employee had not taken advantage of the employer's policy to ...