{"id":3171,"date":"2018-02-08T09:47:38","date_gmt":"2018-02-08T14:47:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lindabury.com\/firm\/?p=3171"},"modified":"2025-02-05T11:16:01","modified_gmt":"2025-02-05T16:16:01","slug":"metoo-whats-employer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lindabury.com\/firm\/insights\/metoo-whats-employer.html","title":{"rendered":"#MeToo: What&#8217;s An Employer To Do?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The floodgate of sexual harassment allegations spawned by the #MeToo movement is evidence that employers are dropping the ball on fostering <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lindabury.com\/it-doesnt-take-a-harvey-weinstein-to-bring-down-your-organizatio.html\">work environments free from inappropriate sexual behaviors<\/a>.\u00a0 The good news is there are simple things an employer can do to prevent workplace harassment from occurring in the first place, and to potentially avoid liability should a suit be filed.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What Should Employers Do to Protect Themselves?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The courts have created a \u201csafe harbor\u201d defense <em>in most instances<\/em> for employers act reasonably to prevent and address incidents of workplace harassment. Employers may qualify for the defense if they undertake the following actions:<strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"read_more_link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lindabury.com\/firm\/insights\/metoo-whats-employer.html\"  title=\"Continue Reading #MeToo: What&#8217;s An Employer To Do?\" class=\"more-link\">Continue Reading \u203a<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The floodgate of sexual harassment allegations spawned by the #MeToo movement is evidence that employers are dropping the ball on fostering work environments free from inappropriate sexual behaviors.\u00a0 The good news is there are simple things an employer can do to prevent workplace harassment from occurring in the first place, and to potentially avoid liability [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[65,247],"tags":[],"coauthors":[139],"class_list":["post-3171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-insights","category-labor-employment-insights"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>#MeToo: What&#039;s An Employer To Do? &#8212; February 8, 2018 &#8212; Lindabury, McCormick, Estabrook &amp; Cooper, P.C. 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