Sexual Harassment in the Workplace Essay -- Sex Discrimination

TABLE OF CONTENTS TYPES OF DISCRIMINATION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1SEXUAL HARASSMENT IS DISCRIMINATION . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . .1Laws That prevail Sexual Harassment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2How It Affects The Workplace . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4TYPES OF SEX DISCRIMINATION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4Basic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4Quid Pro Quo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5Hostile Work Environment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6THE HIGH COST OF LITIGATION FOR EMPLOYERS . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7TYPES OF SEXUAL HARASSMENT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..8 EMPLOYER?S RESPONSIBILITY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9Training . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10Policy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .11VII. CONCLUSION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12BIBLIOGRA PHY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13CASES CITED . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .14I. TYPES OF DISCRIMINATION There are many forms of discrimination, especially in the workplace. Before we get into the different types of discrimination, we need to define the word discriminate which is, to make a distinction in favor of or against a person or function on the basis of the group, class, or category to which the person or thing belongs, rather than according to actual merit. Taken from the Unabridged Edition of the Random House Dictionary of the English Language. Like many people I was chthonic the belief that to discriminate simply meant that y... ...ts Acts of 1964 (Internet) http//www.eeoc.gov/laws/vii.htmlWhitehead, Roy Jr. Spikes, Pam Yelvington, Brenda. Sexual Harassment In The Office. CPA Journal. Vol. 66 No. 2 pp.42-45, February 1996.Note All periodicals were found with the Nexis/Lexis system in the Library.CASES CITEDEllison v. Brady, (1991) 924 F.2d 842Equal Employment Opportunity Commission v. Domino?s Pizza, Inc., 909 F.Supp. 1529 (M.D.Fla. 1995)Harris v. Forklift Systems, Inc., 114 S.Ct. 367 (1993)Matthews v. Superior Court (Regents of University of California), (1995) 34 Cal.App.4th 598.Mogilefski v. Superior Court (Silver Pictures), (1993) 20 Cal.App.4th 1409.Neal v. Director, govern of Columbia Department of Corrections, U.S.Dist. LEXIS,11461, 11469, 11515 (D.D.C. 1995) Note Cases cited were researched through the law library.