Discrimination (Sexual Harassment)

Discrimination (Sexual Harassment)
Sexual Harassment is a serious issue. Sexual harassment occurs when an individual in a work setting experiences unwelcome sexual advances, requests for sexual favors. Verbal or physical conduct of a sexual nature qualifies as sexual harassment when submission to or rejection of this conduct explicitly or implicitly affects an individual's employment, unreasonably interferes with an individual's work performance or creates an intimidating, hostile or offensive work environment. In this paper I will discuss this form of discrimination, the laws pertaining to sexual harassment, who is affected by these laws, how to deal with a sexual harrasment situation both from an employer and an employee’s viewpoint, legitimation of claims and lastly as outlined for discussion in our sylabbus I will discuss disparate treatment and how sexual harassment employment laws relate to disparate impact.
Sexual harassment is a form of sex discriminatio...