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Article: How to prevent sexual harassment claims in your own backyard.
- Article from:
- Defense Counsel Journal
- Article date:
- April 1, 1996
- Author:
CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 1996 International Association of Defense Counsels. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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OVER THE last several years, the reality, pervasiveness and consequences of sexual harassment in the workplace have become all too apparent and a concern for employers, including law firms. Increasingly aware of what constitutes impermissible sexual harassment, employees are tuning to the courts to seek redress. Law firms are not exempt from this trend, and, in fact, juries may hold lawyers, who are presumed to know the law, to higher standards.
Workplace sexual harassment claims are brought under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, 42 U.S.C. [section] 2000e et seq., which makes it an unlawful employment practice for an employer to discriminate with respect to ...