Sexual Discrimination
Sexual harassment is a form of sexual discrimination that violates the laws enacted under title VII. In education, sexual harassment is considered sex discrimination. Allegations of sexual harassment should be reported first through the companies grievance procedures and secondly to the EEOC. Victims of sexual harassment are not members of protected class; however the occurrence of harassment can place them in a position to file complaint with the EEOC as sex discrimination. Sexual harassment can occur to any person of any gender. Sexual harassment can happen in a variety of circumstances which the victim as well as the harasser may be a women or a man. 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. It is always recommended that you inform a harasser that there conduct is inappropriate and unwelcome. Since there has been so many cases of sexual harassment in some states just the failure alone of not informing or providing information to the employee about sexual harassment could violate some state laws. Most companies should come up with a policy that includes the definition of harassment, states that it is illegal to sexually harass anyone, and gives a description or example of harassment. Not only should it cover harassment, but also the different types of harassment. This policy must also state the procedures an employee should take if they feel they have been sexual harassed. These policies should be handed to all employees. For instance, at my job we were all required to watch a film on sexual harassment which showed us how to recognize when you are a victim of this. Then to insure everyone was present and accounted for at the film, we all signed our names on a piece of paper to verify that we were present during this presentation. Both men and women were in attendance,