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 Sexual harassment is a form of sex discrimination that violates Title VII of
the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Unwelcome sexual advances, requests for sexual
favors, and other verbal or physical conduct of a sexual nature constitutes
sexual harassment when submission to or rejection of 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.
Sexual harassment can occur in a variety of circumstances, including but not
limited to the following:
- 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 be the person harassed but could be anyone affected
by the offensive conduct.
- Unlawful sexual harassment may occur without economic injury to or discharge
of the victim.
- The harasser's conduct must be unwelcome.
If you have been a victim of sexual harassment we can assist you with an EEOC
complaint, a civil rights lawsuit, as well as pursuing legal actions to compensate
you for lost wages, opportunity cost, and suffering.
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