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Can workplace harassment occur in remote teams?

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Can workplace harassment occur in remote teams?

By admin| 2020-04-21T17:29:22-05:00 April 21st, 2020|Sexual Harassment, Work Environment|

With stay-at-home orders in place, companies around the world are navigating a new way of working, and it isn’t in an office setting. While workplace harassment is normally understood as inappropriate touches in the hallway or lewd jokes in the breakroom, a remote employee can experience unlawful harassment from their home, as well. According to the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), harassment is “unwelcome conduct that is based on race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), national origin, age (40 or older), disability or genetic information.” The EEOC continues to say that harassment “becomes unlawful where 1) enduring the offensive conduct becomes a condition of continued employment, or 2) the conduct is severe or pervasive enough to create a work [...]

7 examples of a hostile work environment

Employee Rights, Sexual Harassment, Work Environment

7 examples of a hostile work environment

By admin| 2019-01-29T20:01:31-06:00 January 29th, 2019|Employee Rights, Sexual Harassment, Work Environment|

A workplace is legally required to be a safe and comfortable place to work, free from discrimination and harassment. While one-time annoyances do not legally constitute a hostile work environment, you are protected by law if the primary motivation for creating or allowing an unhealthy workplace is discrimination based on the illegal motive of your race, sex, gender, disability, religion or age. What is a hostile work environment? According to the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, “harassment is unwelcome conduct that is based on race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), national origin, age, disability or genetic information. Harassment becomes unlawful when enduring the offensive conduct becomes a condition of continued employment, or the conduct is severe or pervasive enough to [...]

What is sexual harassment in the workplace?

Sexual Harassment

What is sexual harassment in the workplace?

By admin| 2022-09-27T12:33:53-05:00 April 9th, 2018|Sexual Harassment|

What is sexual harassment? According to the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), sexual harassment is legally defined as: “unwelcome sexual advances, requests for sexual favors, and other verbal or physical conduct of a sexual nature 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.” According to the EEOC: The victim as well as the harasser may be a woman or a man. The victim does not have to be of the opposite sex. The harasser can be the victim's supervisor, an agent of the employer, a supervisor in another area, a co-worker, or a non-employee. The victim does not have to [...]