sexual harassment
The Employee in the scenario Brittany Murphy feels she has become a victim of sexual harassment and has been unfairly treated at the company based on the situations that have occurred. Brittany has had interactions with her immediate supervisor Dwayne Miller and fellow employee Robert Singer, both she claims have made inappropriate actions towards her. The two types of sexual harassment that have occurred in the situation are quid pro quo and hostile environment sexual harassment. Quid pro quo sexual harassment occurs in the work environment when someone in leadership or in this case a supervisor will offer the individual an employment related benefit (promotion, raise, etc.) in exchange for a sexual favor. This situation we seen Dwayne Miller offer Brittany the opportunity to transfer to another department and promotion in exchange to stay in the same hotel and expose her breasts. Hostile environment Sexual harassment occurs when occurs when “unwelcome comments or conduct based on sex, race or other legally protected characteristics unreasonably interferes with an employee’s work performance or creates an intimidating, hostile or offensive work environment.” In this situation clearly Brittany was so upset and sick to her stomach based on the comments that Robert had made about her in a sexual manner. Brittany made it a point to ask Robert to stop and how the advances by him were unwanted but Robert kept making comments and went as far to have a picture of Brittany on his computer. There is no doubt that Brittany has a viable claim for both types of sexual harassment, the tough thing is Brittany needs to have good evidence to prove that these instances occurred wither it be through a paper trail or witnesses. The situation will be tough it comes down to one person’s word against the other as Robert claims Brittany was not giving him his calls in a timely matter which was the result of the demotion. With evidence to back up the claims Robert and Dwayne should be