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Sexual Harassment in the News
Outsourcing Sexual Harassment in High-Tech?
Here is a fascinating and troubling article in the Christian Science Monitor about the extraordinarily high rate of sexual harassment in the Indian outsourcing community. According to the article, the India-based Centre for Transforming India has said that 88 percent...
Heads are rolling due to sexual harassment allegations
Most people know that former Hewlett Packard CEO Mark Hurd resigned under the cloud of a sexual harassment claim investigation. (The HP investigation purportedly did not show a violation of HP's anti-harassment policy but did show Hurd falsified expense reports in...
A Busy Week for Harassment Lawsuits in the Entertainment Industry
A former producer on the Joaquin Phoenix documentary film sued director Casey Affleck, brother of Ben Affleck, alleging hostile work environment and quid pro quo. Meanwhile, a former assistant prop master on "House, M.D." alleged hostile work environment,...
Sexual harassment not on the rise, training common, according to SHRM members
In a recent poll by The Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM), most organizations reported that the number of harassment claims is stable, neither rising nor declining. In good news, most respondents report that their organization provides regular harassment...
Federal Harassment Claims by Men Are on the Rise
According to the EEOC (Equal Employment Opportunity Commission), sexual harassment claims by men are on the rise, reports the Associated Press. While women still file the vast majority of harassment claims, and overall claims are on the decline, the percentage of...
Sexual Harassment Allegations Rocked the House
U.S. Representative Eric Massa resigned this past Monday after male staffers claimed that he was fondling them. Massa denied sexual intent but admitted getting into a "tickle fight" with some of his staffers. He also was living in a townhouse with five of his...
Former "Price is Right" Model Sues for Pregnancy Harassment, Discrimination
A former model on the game show "The Price is Right" has sued CBS and other defendants, claiming pregnancy harassment and discrimination. She says that she was harassed due to her pregnancy and that producers refused to allow her to come back after pregnancy leave,...
Just in Time for Valentine's Day: Article about the Perils of Workplace Romance
One of the topics that tends to give human resource professionals heartburn is on-the-job romance. When relationships go sour, the best case scenario is usually decreased morale and productivity. And the worse case scenario? Sexual harassment litigation. Even when...
2009 deadline approaches for AB 1825 harassment prevention training
For many companies doing business in California, 2009 is a compliance year for providing sexual harassment prevention training to supervisors under AB 1825. Have you had your training? 3 weeks left! If you can't fit it in by the end of December, you might want to...
EEOC sues Dunkin Donuts alleging harassment of teen workers
According to a lawsuit brought by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission this week, at least two teenage female employees at a Dunkin Donuts in Wynantskill, New York have alleged their supervisor sexually harassed them. According to the lawsuit, one employee was...
Intersection of Social Media and Employment Law Issues
With new technologies come new employment law issues. Here's an interesting article from the New York Law Journal that talks about just a few potential ramifications of social networking on legal issues. Most interesting to me is the article's discussion of two cases...
Update: The Hunter Industries Case Gets Weirder
Here's an interesting twist in the case against Hunter Industries. You'll recall from my earlier blog that a former employee alleged groping and repeated sexual advances by the company president/CEO, as well as prostitutes being hired to dance on tables at a company...