Sexual Harassment 5
Sexual harassment has turned the workplace into a hazardous place to be. It is becoming a place where an innocent remark can threaten a perfectly good career. It's not like the old days when a kiss was just a kiss, a wink just a wink, or a joke just a joke. No longer will these innocent gestures be acceptable in the workplace, unless you want to risk winding up before the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission on a charge of violating Title Seven of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, which banned discrimination in hiring on the basis of race, sex, creed, religion or country of origin. Following the Clarance Thomas and Bob Packwood cases, sexual harassment cases have multiplied enormously. In 1990 the EEOC handled 6,127 complaints, by 1993 the annual total had almost doubled to 11,908. Sexual harassment laws must be cleared up, because peoples lives are being changed in negative ways.What is sexual harassment ? There are really two definitions: the common sense/behavioral definition or the guidelines set by the EEOC and the courts. The common-sense or behavioral definition of sexual harassment is a "deliberate and/or repeated sexual or sex-bas
In many cases sexual harassment is clearly evident. Take for example, the case against Hooters Restaurants. Women that work there were required to wear a tight fitting T'shirt that had "HOOTERS" written across the chest area (Newsweek, 1993). Another case of sexual harassment was the case where the woman's male boss said things like "Let's go to the Holiday Inn to negotiate your raise", or "you are just a dumb-ass woman". This guy also asked the women employees to put their hands in his pants pockets to retrieve change (New Republic, 1993). These cases are clear examples of what sexual harassment is. ed behavior that is not welcome, not asked for, and not returned". The EEOC guidelines state that unwanted sexual advances, requests for sexual favors, and other verbal or physical actions of a sexual nature become illegal when connected to a manager's or supervisor's decision regarding hiring, firing, pay, promotion, job assignment, or other aspect of employment, or when such behavior interferes with an employee's ability to perform work or creates a hostile, offensive work environment (Sexual Harassment, Meyer, M, (1981)). Anything that
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