Relationship-smart business cultures
Everyone knows that discrimination and sexual harassment are illegal, as are other types of relationship abuse. Employees fear of authority and job loss, don’t tell about harassment until it is too late. By that time, the damage is done, and someone is liable. Students fear the repercussions of bad grades. Teachers are also vulnerable to discrimination and sexual harassment, but face a difficult job market if they leave, and social isolation, possibly, if they tell.
The very threat of relationship violence, especially sexual molestation or assault, makes most of us fearful, anxious, and depressed. Work performance suffers, too, and absenteeism rises. It is a form of psychological abuse, too, the stuff of obsessions and bad dreams. And it is against the law.
When a person suffers an ethnic joke, or is insulted by a racial slur. The protected classes include— sex, age, ethnicity, race, disability, religion, national origin, and sexual identification. And more (veteran status, etc). The spirit behind the law is that everyone should be treated the same. Even joking, bringing pornography to work or watching it online, poking fun of individual traits of any sort, crosses the line.
When individuals suffer, when the workplace (or school) becomes a hostile environment, reports to the EEOC or a civil lawsuit might follow. ANY unwelcome sexual communication or racial comments, references to someone’s personal identity, might be evidence of criminal behavior or neglect on the part of an employer.
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Corporate sexual harassment prevention
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