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How To Protect Yourself From Sexual Harassment At The Workplace by ritageezy: 4:01pm On Dec 21, 2018
Legally speaking sexual harassment is an unwanted or unsolicited sexual behavior or advance to a person of opposite or same sex in a working environment to cause intimidation, hostility, or offense to the other.

The act of sexual harassment in workplaces has been held to be repeated offensive, vilifying or belittling jokes, public display of disgusting pornography, fashioning an intimidating work atmosphere with an obvious intent of sexual assault.

Federal and State legislation providentially protect workers from discrimination based on gender as well as sexual harassment in a workplace by same laws. Precisely by virtue of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act, there exists Federal legislation that prohibits sexual harassment. This law is practically domesticated in most states to regulate just employment practices laws by directly providing for the prohibition of sexual harassment in workplaces. Most state laws have more stringent punishment than the federal law.

The purpose of this article is to create awareness of the legal or necessary steps to be taken by a person who is sexually harassed at work and how you can protect yourself from further harassment. Some of the steps are to wit:

Boldly Confront the Harasser and Verbally a Stop to the Offensive Behavior

It may be difficult to take this bold step, but it is one of the most effective ways of dealing with harassment at its early stage. Early signs of sexually offensive behavior may take the form of despising or poor jokes, unsuitable remarks about your physical appearance, or vulgar animations posted around the office to make a caricature of you.
You must note that spoken words initiate most harassment and plainly demanding that you want the offensive behavior to stop is imperative to terminating same because it puts the harasser on notice that you are not interested in the undesirable conduct.... Read More [/url]Here


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Re: How To Protect Yourself From Sexual Harassment At The Workplace by techking: 4:33pm On Dec 21, 2018
Some men need some ass kicking...4 harassing lades

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