{"id":3292,"date":"2018-03-23T13:00:13","date_gmt":"2018-03-23T17:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lindabury.com\/firm\/?p=3292"},"modified":"2025-02-24T13:31:07","modified_gmt":"2025-02-24T18:31:07","slug":"can-employers-protect-liability-arising-claims-sexual-harassment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lindabury.com\/firm\/insights\/can-employers-protect-liability-arising-claims-sexual-harassment.html","title":{"rendered":"How Can Employers Protect Themselves Against Liability Arising From Claims of Sexual Harassment?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Workplace harassment remains a harsh and unavoidable reality for employers. Given the recent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lindabury.com\/it-doesnt-take-a-harvey-weinstein-to-bring-down-your-organizatio.html\">#MeToo<\/a> movement, employers can expect to see a continued rise in complaints concerning harassment, specifically sexual harassment. Although no guidelines can define sexual harassment with complete clarity, unwelcome sexual advances, requests for sexual favors, and other physical, verbal or visual conduct based on sex constitutes sexual harassment when:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Submission to such conduct is made either explicitly or implicitly a term or condition of an individual&#8217;s employment, or;<\/li>\n<li>Submission to or rejection of such conduct by an individual is used as the basis for employment decisions affecting the individual, or;<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<div class=\"read_more_link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lindabury.com\/firm\/insights\/can-employers-protect-liability-arising-claims-sexual-harassment.html\"  title=\"Continue Reading How Can Employers Protect Themselves Against Liability Arising From Claims of Sexual Harassment?\" class=\"more-link\">Continue Reading \u203a<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Workplace harassment remains a harsh and unavoidable reality for employers. Given the recent #MeToo movement, employers can expect to see a continued rise in complaints concerning harassment, specifically sexual harassment. Although no guidelines can define sexual harassment with complete clarity, unwelcome sexual advances, requests for sexual favors, and other physical, verbal or visual conduct based [&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":[65,247,291],"tags":[],"coauthors":[296],"class_list":["post-3292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-insights","category-labor-employment-insights","category-gingeleskie"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>How Can Employers Protect Themselves Against Liability Arising From Claims of Sexual Harassment? &#8212; March 23, 2018 &#8212; Lindabury, McCormick, Estabrook &amp; Cooper, P.C. 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