Sex Harassment in Chester County Pennsylvania
Speak to West Chester PA employment lawyer Steve Jarmon if you have been the victim of sex harassment in the workforce. Sexual harassment can be viewed as a form of sex discrimination. When employers allow sexual harassment to occur, they are creating a different and less desirable, working environment for the victims of harassment. The law requires that employers provide equal terms and conditions of employment regardless of sex. and that means that sexual harassment is illegal and needs to be prosecuted including the following types of illegal harassment:
- an employer requesting a sexual relationship in return for promotion, salary increases, or other improvements in working conditions;
- an employer requiring a social dating relationship in return for career advancement;
- an employer allowing one group of employees to bully and harass another group defined by its sex;
- an employer retaliating against an employee who reports or claims sexual harassment by firing, demoting, or transferring the employee to a lesser classification or inferior work location;
- an employer condoning a workplace characterized by repeated sexual innuendo, obscene or off-color jokes, slurs, lewd remarks and language, nicknames, and offensive sexual comments;
- displaying or permitting employees to display sexually suggestive or explicit materials in the workplace
Sexual Harassment is serious issue and should not be tolerated in your work invironment whether its in West Chester, Chester County or any part of Philadelphia PA. Everyone is entitled to do their job without being subjected to unwanted sexual advances or negative treatment for failure to give into those sexual advances. There are two types of sexual harassment that can occur in the work place; quid pro quo and hostile work environment. Quid pro quo occurs when an employer or supervisor asks for sexual favors from an employee in exchange for raises, promotions and other perks that may come along with that employment. Quid pro quo also occurs when an employer threatens an employee with a negative disposition for failure to give into the unwanted sexual advances.
Hostile work environment sexual harassment occurs when the work environment is made intolerable because of its sexual nature. Photographs, jokes, touching and comments of a sexual nature that are intolerable to an employee can be considered sexual harassment and should not be tolerated. If you feel that you have been a victim of sexual harassment you need action and you need justice.
Contact Us About Sexual Harassment in Philadelphia Pennsylvania
Contact Steve Jarmon and the Employment law team of Ciccarelli Lawyers at (610) 925-2500 or toll free (877) 529-2422 to schedule an initial consultation if you have a question about your rights under Pennsylvania employment law, or have an issue or dispute that you believe needs legal attention. Our employment law practice is based in Chester County and we have locations in West Chester, Kennett Square and Exton and serve: Downingtown, Coatesville, Paoli, Malvern, Devon, Paoli, Oxford, West Grove, Lionville, Phoenixville in Chester County and also serve clients in Delaware County, Lancaster County, Montgomery County and Philadelphia PA.
