Finding Solutions for Northern Kentucky Workplace Harassment Problems
The employment law attorneys of O'Hara Ruberg Taylor Sloan & Sergent advise and represent workers throughout the region about their legal options in the face of sexual, racial and other forms of prohibited harassment on the job. Not every type of "harassment" is prohibited by federal and state employment discrimination laws. We advise clients about the evidence necessary to establish unlawful sexual or racial harassment and a sexually or racially hostile work environment, as well as the remedies available.
The same laws that protect workers from racial or sexual harassment also protect workers from serious forms of harassment that target such things as a person's national origin or ethnic background as well as an employee's age, religion or disability or any other status specifically protected by state and federal anti-discrimination laws.
Understanding the Quid Pro Quo and Hostile Environment Forms of Harassment
Quid pro quo harassment refers to workplace misconduct that requires or pressures the victim to grant sexual favors or put up with offensive behavior as a condition of getting hired, keeping or advancing in a job, or avoiding an adverse employer decision such as termination or discipline. In virtually all cases, the perpetrator occupies a higher rank in the workplace than the victim.
Hostile work environment refers to the other major category of sexual harassment, which typically involves the employer's inability or unwillingness to correct an offensive workplace atmosphere. Characteristic grounds of complaint include open displays of pornographic material, annoying remarks about a person's dress or physical appearance, circulation of obscene material in e-mail, or similar problems.
Understanding the Hostile Environment Forms of Sexual, Racial or Ethnic Harassment
A single incident or widely scattered episodes of sexually, racially offensive conduct will not generally support a hostile work environment complaint, but where the workplace is permeated with discriminatory intimidation, ridicule, and insult sufficiently severe or pervasive to alter conditions of victim's employment and create an abusive working environment, your rights protected by state and federal civil rights laws have probably been violated. In such circumstances legal action might well be the answer.
The lawyers of O'Hara Ruberg Taylor Sloan & Sergent advise workers about their rights when either form of sexual harassment, racial harassment or other forms of discriminatory harassment prohibited by law makes life at work a daily ordeal. Our investigation can reveal the errors on the employer's part that permit sexual harassment to take hold in a workplace. Our Northern Kentucky and Greater Cincinnati sexual harassment attorneys can also advise you regarding damages, negotiate severance or pursue other remedies that can lead to fair compensation.
For specific advice about your workplace situation in Kentucky or Ohio, contact our office in Covington for a free consultation.
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