Harassment in the Workplace

The U.S. Senate confirmation hearings on the nomination of Clarence Thomas to the U.S. Supreme Court pushed the issue of sexual harassment to a new place of awareness among Americans. Before that, sexual harassment wasn’t really a phrase Americans were accustomed to hearing, and few knew exactly what it meant in the employment law sense.

But those days are long gone and now human resources professionals have racial harassment, national origin harassment, religious harassment, age harassment, and disability harassment to keep track of as well and as sexual harassment. And some states and cities have laws that prohibit harassment in even more categories, such as sexual orientation.

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