Sexual Harassment
| Sexual Harassment Report | HRM 320: Employment Law | Professor Myers-Nelson | Elsa Mendoza | 8/18/2013 |
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Define sexual harassment as the term is used legally.
Sexual Harassment is the advance or request for sexual favors made by one employee to another that is not welcomed or consented to including touching, joking, commenting, or distributing material of a sexual nature that an employee has not consented to and finds offensive (Moran, p.280).
Explain how sexual harassment differs from gender discrimination.
Sex discrimination or gender discrimination constitutes treating someone, an applicant or employee, unfavorably because of that person’s sex (Sex-Based). Sexual harassment is a form of sex discrimination that involves the requests for sexual favors, unwelcome sexual advances, and other verbal and physical harassment of a sexual nature when the 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 case, the victim and the harasser can be either a woman or a man and the victim and harasser can be the same sex (Facts).
Provide the legal definition of "quid pro quo" (also known as "vicarious liability") sexual harassment. Provide one example of a behavior which could be found to be quid pro quo sexual harassment.
Quid pro quo sexual harassment or vicarious liability is a situation in which a superior is demanding sexual favors from a subordinate in return for hiring, transferring, promoting, giving a raise, bonuses, lighter workload, etc. Basically it means giving something in exchange for something else and the action will inflict direct economic harm on the employee (Moran, p.277). For example, if a manager proposed to his secretary to go out on a date with him and in exchange he promised to give her a raise, this type of behavior would be considered quid pro quo sexual
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Define sexual harassment as the term is used legally.
Sexual Harassment is the advance or request for sexual favors made by one employee to another that is not welcomed or consented to including touching, joking, commenting, or distributing material of a sexual nature that an employee has not consented to and finds offensive (Moran, p.280).
Explain how sexual harassment differs from gender discrimination.
Sex discrimination or gender discrimination constitutes treating someone, an applicant or employee, unfavorably because of that person’s sex (Sex-Based). Sexual harassment is a form of sex discrimination that involves the requests for sexual favors, unwelcome sexual advances, and other verbal and physical harassment of a sexual nature when the 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 case, the victim and the harasser can be either a woman or a man and the victim and harasser can be the same sex (Facts).
Provide the legal definition of "quid pro quo" (also known as "vicarious liability") sexual harassment. Provide one example of a behavior which could be found to be quid pro quo sexual harassment.
Quid pro quo sexual harassment or vicarious liability is a situation in which a superior is demanding sexual favors from a subordinate in return for hiring, transferring, promoting, giving a raise, bonuses, lighter workload, etc. Basically it means giving something in exchange for something else and the action will inflict direct economic harm on the employee (Moran, p.277). For example, if a manager proposed to his secretary to go out on a date with him and in exchange he promised to give her a raise, this type of behavior would be considered quid pro quo sexual