Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and other laws prohibiting harassment on the basis of protected categories extend to harassment by customers, and employers can be held liable if they don’t take action to put a stop to it. That point was made clear by the U.S. 10th Circuit Court of Appeals in […]
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The United States Second Circuit Court of Appeals, which is the highest federal appeals court in New York, recently ruled that a heterosexual male can file a sexual harassment claim based on unwanted groping and sex-based comments by another heterosexual male. In this case, a heterosexual male sued his employer, Seneca Foods Corporation, for sexual
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A Brooklyn Federal Court Judge recently ordered a employee who is suing her former employer for sexual harassment to produce, as part of that litigation, certain social media communications and photographs. In Reid v. Ingerman Smith, the former employee is alleging that she was sexually harassed at her former workplace, which is a Long Island