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Victims of sexual harassment whose employer were notified of the behavior may be able to bring a claim against their employer for failing to address and/or cease the harassment. For any claim or legal proceeding to be successful, however, victims must fulfill certain prerequisites, or satisfy specific legal elements with sufficient evidence. Our firm aims to make the path to recovery easier for victims, providing them the resources, support, and advocacy they need to overcome even the toughest obstacles.
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Isolated Incidents of Harassment are Not Legal
Unwelcome sexual advances, requests for sexual favors, and other verbal or physical conduct of a sexual nature constitute sexual harassment when this conduct explicitly or implicitly affects an individual’s employment, unreasonably interferes with an individual’s work performance, or creates an intimidating, hostile, or offensive work environment. The victim does not have to be the person harassed—the victim could be anyone affected by the harassing behavior.
Examples of such scenarios in which this sort of conduct might take place include the following:
- The victim as well as the harasser may be an employee, a supervisor, a manager, a co-worker, an intern, a consultant, a client, a vendor, a contractor, or any other individual in the workplace.
- The harassment may occur by a co-worker in the victim’s same company or in a different company.
- Although most of the numerous cases of sexual harassment have involved challenges to employment decisions and/or requests for sexual favors, a wide variety of other forms of evidence are relevant to a sexual harassment claim.
Types of Sexual Harassment
- Hostile Work Environment Sexual Harassment – Unwanted sexual remarks, intimate conversations, touching, displays/presents of explicit websites, jokes, innuendoes, and/or explicit notes, cartoon or drawings can establish a sexually hostile work environment when the victim is exposed to this on an ongoing basis, and when the victim is offended and is unable to perform his or her job satisfactorily as a result.
- Quid Pro Quo (This for That) Sexual Harassment – This happens when subordinates are threatened with any employment detriment if they do not acquiesce to sexual demands of superiors, and vice versa.
- This type of sexual harassment is silver-platter for an employee’s sexual harassment case, but its existence is usually impossible to prove or disprove without the competent, honest, and credible witness of qualified employment lawyer to support the contemporary evidence that can be seen through the “filter” of sexual harassment. Employers are almost always found liable for the actions of their supervisors in supervisor-on-employee sexual assault or sexual harassment cases.
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One of the most challenging aspects of addressing, rectifying, and hopefully recovering from the traumatic experience of sexual harassment is informing others of the event and their potential legal options. A strong majority of cases go unreported for fear of social backlash and retaliatory action by employers. This shouldn’t happen, and often no one is more committed to ensuring it doesn’t than our firm.
Attorney Rod Smith has spent decades offering his experienced counsel and trusted advocacy to individuals that would otherwise have none. If you have a genuine sexual harassment claim, you deserve to work with a talented, knowledgeable, compassionate, and dedicated Huntington sexual harassment lawyer. Trust Rod to put your best interests first—call today for a consultation, so we can get started on your case right away.
For a free initial consultation with our top-rated Huntington sexual harassment attorney, call (304) 406-7076 today. You can count on receiving the information you need to make an informed decision about how to proceed with your claim.
