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As per EEOC, the agency charged with enforcing federal anti-discrimination laws, while the overall complaints are down, sexual harassment complaints and retaliation claims have increased in 2018. EEOC received 7,609 sexual harassment charges – and won nearly $70 million for victims of sexual harassment.
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In the early 1970s, Lin Farley, a professor at Cornell University, coined the term “sexual harassment” during “consciousness raising circles.” In the late 1970s, Catherine MacKinnon pioneered the underlying legal theories linking sexual harassment to discrimination in her written publications.
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Healthcare employees are nearly five times more likely than workers in other fields to be victims of workplace violence, according to federal government statistics. Because of this, the OSHA issued guidelines in 2015 for preventing workplace violence in the healthcare and social services industries.
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People meet, date, mate, get married, and break-up in the workplace all the time. After all, we are humans: We are attracted to others, whether at school, in social settings, or at work. The vast majority of organizations recognize that liaisons do or can exist and sensibly prohibit relationships in the chain of command.
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In October 2017, 10 days after the Harvey Weinstein story broke, Alyssa Milano tweeted: “If you’ve been sexually harassed or assaulted write ‘me too’ as a reply to this tweet.” Eighty-five countries had at least 1,000 #MeToo tweets.
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Sparked by the #MeToo movement, sexual harassment is now the focus of a national conversation as it has never been before. The movement has empowered women and men to speak out about their personal experiences with sexual harassment in the workplace.
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Being a victim of sexual harassment is demeaning. That’s why as many as three-quarters of U.S. employees that experience unwanted advancements in the workplace ignore it, and fail to report the harassment to their superiors.
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I can’t count the number of employers that have expressed shock to me that anyone could allege that sexual harassment goes on in their workplace. Most employers have written policies prohibiting sexual harassment. They state in no uncertain terms that they do not tolerate sexual harassment.
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In partnership with Impactly, ThinkHR recently conducted a survey of its customers to measure the extent to which U.S. employers are adopting EEOC best practices to eliminate harassment and discrimination in the workplace.
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