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Article: Is a wink as bad as a nod?
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- The Boston Herald
- Article date:
- April 5, 1998
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Confusion bubbles up around the water cooler
In Dec. 9, 1986, Massachusetts outlawed sexual harassment. Since then, workers, employers and lawyers have struggled to understand how to apply the law in a wide range of circumstances. What follows is an introduction to this complex subject.
The law in Mass.
Massachusetts Fair Employment Practices Act, Chapter 151B, Section 1
The term "sexual harassment" shall mean sexual advances, requests for sexual favors and other verbal or physical conduct of a sexual nature when (a) submission to or rejection of such advances, requests or conduct is made either explicitly or implicitly a term or ...