In most professions, friendly office banter is usually a welcome way to reduce stress. However, lines can be blurred when banter borders on sexually suggestive comments and then quickly turns into sexual harassment if pornography and lewd comments enter the...
Getting a job opportunity is a blessing to most people, especially if the job offer is an upgrade from a person's current employment. However, everything can change when the promising career has a caveat that requires doing sexual favors. This is a clear indication of...
With sexual harassment laws in place across the country and employers and workers becoming more attuned to everyone's workplace rights, acts of sexual harassment should be a thing of the past. Unfortunately, some companies do not adhere to the law. If you are a worker...
A hostile working environment is not conducive to New York business. It can also be an affront to workers' labor and civil rights. Unfortunately, despite ongoing campaigns to push for equal rights in the workplace and overall progress, some employers and supervisors...
In society as a whole and in workplaces in particular, stereotyped gender roles are slowly becoming relics of the past. Women not only get more employment opportunities but also have more chances to develop careers. Unfortunately, some establishments seem to have...
A hostile workplace environment can do more damage than most people realize. Victims of sexual harassment often suffer physically, emotionally and mentally after harassment. These are injuries that do not heal on their own. However, any employee who is victimized by...
Sexual harassment remains a problem in workplaces all across the United States, New York included. The behavior exacts an emotional toll on its victims. Although employed workers, both full- and part-time, are protected by law from sexual harassment in the workplace,...
Workplace sexual harassment is a serious issue in any type of business. However, in the past few years, a troubling trend of sexual harassment incidents have occurred in some of the country's more easily identifiable franchises. New York franchise employees and...
One of the duties of a Transportation Union Workers Supervisor is to keep track of assaults and other unlawful behavior against bus drivers. However, in a recent case in New York, it is the supervisor himself who is being accused of unlawful behavior. A 45-year-old...
Dennis Gabryszak, a New York state assemblyman, is facing yet another sexual harassment lawsuit after a former staff member accused him of asking female staff members to wear sexy elf costumes. She alleged in her sexual harassment claim that he also made inappropriate...