Category: Sexual Harassment

Quirky Question # 67: We have a sexual harassment problem at our company.  I’ll spare you the grim details but let’s just say it’s an ugly situation, involving several members of management.  No physical contact or assaultive behavior but some widespread hostile environment issues.  Among other behaviors, for example, our managers apparently thought it perfectly appropriate to entertain clients at...

Quirky Question # 30: We are a large, national, medical device company.  Over the years, we’ve adopted personnel policies to provide appropriate guidance to our workforce and to comply with federal and state laws.  We have a well defined and clear sexual harassment policy.  Notwithstanding our sexual harassment policy, we find that we periodically confront workplace problems associated with relationships...

Quirky Question # 12: Our company employs a lot of minors.  We have a policy prohibiting sexual harassment.  It is written for our work force as a whole and is not tailored toward the high school students we employ.  A friend of mine recently told me that our policy has to be understandable by the high school students for it...

Quirky Question # 5: I read your Quirky Question # 4.  Unlike your last reader, I am not in our company’s Human Resources Department.  But I am the attorney within our Office of the General Counsel with responsibility for addressing employment issues. One of our HR representatives informed me that she had received a sexual harassment complaint by one of...

Quirky Question # 4: I am an HR Representative.  One of my duties is to take complaints regarding workplace discrimination, including sexual harassment. One of our female employees recently complained to me that she feels as though she is being sexually harassed by one of our top salesmen.  (He is not her supervisor, but she does work on the team...