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So, I have potential clients that come to me and say, “I’ve been a victim of sexual harassment at work. I’ve complained about it. There was an investigation. Something must have happened to my sexual harasser, but what do I do? I mean, I I I have to interact with the alleged harasser on a daily basis. I come to work. I’m still having to do projects with that person. I feel really uncomfortable. So, what are my rights? What do I do in that situation?” Um, now the employer hasn’t taken any concrete
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negative action towards you as the client. Um, they haven’t retaliated against you. They haven’t change your title or or change your work uh responsibilities. Um, that’s a potentially difficult situation. It’s uncomfortable for a number of different reasons. However, um the employer’s obligation when it receives a complaint of sexual harassment is to take reasonable steps to correct or remediate that harassment from continuing in the future to stop it. Provided that the employer does that,
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you really have no further recourse to say, “I want the harasser fired or I want to work in a different area or a different project or I want to be transferred.” Um, the only requirement under the law for the employer to follow is that they stop the harassment from continuing. That’s their only legal obligation. Now, so what does that mean? That does not mean that you’re not entitled to get compensated if in fact you are harmed or damaged because of the harassment. It also doesn’t mean that nothing’s
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happened to the harasser because it may very well be. However, you may not know what has happened to the harasser because um employers also have to make sure that they are protecting the privacy interests of the alleged harasser. Sometimes unfortunately you know the there’s misunderstandings in the workplace. Uh and so uh so long as the employer takes active steps to solve the problem and to prevent the harassment from continuing in the future, while it may be a bit uncomfortable, it’s important for you to work through it and
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to continue to keep moving forward as a client, I mean as a an employee in the company. So, it’s only if the employer has not prevented the sexual harassment, if the harassment continues, if you’re continued to make feel uncomfortable by the coworker or in the case of a supervisor or supervisor and management is not doing anything about it. Under that scenario, you have rights to pursue a claim. Uh, and I would encourage you to reach out to Eric Seagull Law. We can certainly discuss the facts and have a
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better understanding about how to protect your interests.
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