{"id":583,"date":"2012-01-13T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-01-13T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/events-lindabury.blawgcloud.com\/1970\/01\/we-told-you-so-summary-judgment-denied-to-employer-who-negligently-failed-to-implement-an-effective-sexual-harassment-program.html"},"modified":"2025-02-05T11:40:34","modified_gmt":"2025-02-05T16:40:34","slug":"we-told-you-so-summary-judgment-denied-to-employer-who-negligently-failed-to-implement-an-effective-sexual-harassment-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lindabury.com\/firm\/insights\/we-told-you-so-summary-judgment-denied-to-employer-who-negligently-failed-to-implement-an-effective-sexual-harassment-program.html","title":{"rendered":"We Told You So! Summary Judgment Denied to Employer Who Negligently Failed To Implement an Effective Sexual Harassment Program"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Employment Law Newsletter<\/p>\n<p>Periodically, we remind employers that they cannot effectively defend sexual harassment claims if they fail to implement and enforce a sexual harassment program that includes well-publicized policies prohibiting unlawful harassment, periodic training of supervisory personnel in the sexual harassment policy, and clear monitoring and investigative procedures reasonably designed to identify and remediate sexual harassment in the workplace. A New Jersey Appellate Court recently hit that message home when it reinstated a claim against an employer who could not establish the aforementioned elements of an effective anti-harassment program.<\/p>\n<p>In , plaintiffs appealed the trial court\u2019s dismissal of their hostile work environment claim under the New Jersey Law Against Discrimination arising from alleged acts by a fellow employee. The trial court concluded that despite the evidence showing that the plaintiffs were exposed to sexual harassment in the workplace, the County could not be vicariously liable because the offender was not a supervisor, the County had a sexual harassment policy in place providing for a complaint procedure, the plaintiff\u2019s invoked the complaint procedure, and the ensuing investigation resulted in a finding that the allegations could not be sustained.<\/p>\n<div class=\"read_more_link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lindabury.com\/firm\/insights\/we-told-you-so-summary-judgment-denied-to-employer-who-negligently-failed-to-implement-an-effective-sexual-harassment-program.html\"  title=\"Continue Reading We Told You So! Summary Judgment Denied to Employer Who Negligently Failed To Implement an Effective Sexual Harassment Program\" class=\"more-link\">Continue Reading \u203a<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Employment Law Newsletter Periodically, we remind employers that they cannot effectively defend sexual harassment claims if they fail to implement and enforce a sexual harassment program that includes well-publicized policies prohibiting unlawful harassment, periodic training of supervisory personnel in the sexual harassment policy, and clear monitoring and investigative procedures reasonably designed to identify and remediate [&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-583","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 v25.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>We Told You So! 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