{"id":95629,"date":"2025-02-18T14:23:00","date_gmt":"2025-02-18T14:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/business\/legal\/eeoc-posts-guidelines-on-harassment\/"},"modified":"2025-02-18T14:23:00","modified_gmt":"2025-02-18T14:23:00","slug":"eeoc-posts-guidelines-on-harassment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=95629","title":{"rendered":"EEOC Posts Guidelines On Harassment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"post-body-8130203125610189908\" itemprop=\"description articleBody\">\n<p>\u00a0I can&#8217;t tell you how many times per week I have to tell people that harassment is not generally illegal. Bullying, general harassment because you&#8217;re you, just being mean, are not illegal. If they were, I&#8217;d be a billionaire.<\/p>\n<p>But some kinds of harassment are illegal. EEOC has posted guidelines<a href=\"https:\/\/www.eeoc.gov\/summary-key-provisions-eeoc-enforcement-guidance-harassment-workplace\">posted guidelines<\/a> on what kinds of discriminatory harassment are illegal. Here are some key provisions:<\/p>\n<p><b>Types of harassment<\/b>: &#8220;All laws enforced by the EEOC prohibit workplace harassment that is based on a <b><i>protected characteristic<\/i><\/b>. The protected characteristics covered by the laws the EEOC enforces are race, color, religion, sex (including sexual orientation; gender identity; and pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), national origin, disability, age (40 or older), and genetic information (including family medical history).&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"background-color: white;\"><b>When is harassment illegal<\/b>:<\/span> &#8220;To violate the law, harassment based on a protected characteristic must either:involve a change to the victim\u2019s employment (e.g., an employee is fired, demoted, denied a promotion or transfer, reassigned, or receives reduced hours or pay because the employee rejected a supervisor\u2019s sexual advances); or create a \u201chostile work environment\u201d&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><b>Examples of illegal harassment<\/b>: EEOC gives these examples:<\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<li>saying or writing an ethnic, racial, or sex-based slur;<\/li>\n<li>forwarding an offensive or derogatory \u201cjoke\u201d email;<\/li>\n<li>displaying offensive material (such as a noose, swastika, or other hate symbols, or offensive cartoons, photographs, or graffiti); threatening or intimidating a person because of the person\u2019s religious beliefs or lack of religious beliefs;<\/li>\n<li>sharing pornography or sexually demeaning depictions of people, including AI-generated and deepfake images and videos;<\/li>\n<li>making comments based on stereotypes about older workers;<\/li>\n<li>mimicking a person\u2019s disability;<\/li>\n<li>mocking a person\u2019s accent;<\/li>\n<li>making fun of a person\u2019s religious garments, jewelry, or displays;<\/li>\n<li>asking intrusive questions about a person\u2019s sexual orientation, gender identity, gender transition, or intimate body parts;<\/li>\n<li>groping, touching, or otherwise physically assaulting a person;<\/li>\n<li>making sexualized gestures or comments, even when this behavior is not motivated by a desire to have sex with the victim; and<\/li>\n<li>threatening a person\u2019s job or offering preferential treatment in exchange for sexual favors.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I would add that bullies tend to pick on the weak and the different. Who&#8217;s weak? Pregnant, disabled, and older employees. Who&#8217;s different? Race, sex, national origin, color, religion, etc. So look at who the bully is targeting and you might find that they are indeed engaging in illegal harassment.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><b>Do they have to get it right?<\/b>: No. If the employer assumes you are Muslim, Black, or have some other protected characteristic and are harassing you because of it, that&#8217;s illegal<\/p>\n<p><b>Association<\/b>: If you&#8217;re being harassed due to your association with someone with a protected characteristic, such as being married to a Hispanic or a person with a disability, that&#8217;s illegal.<\/p>\n<p><b>What is a hostile environment<\/b>: It isn&#8217;t easy to prove, but EEOC offers this:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A \u201chostile work environment\u201d exists when harassment is so severe or frequent (called \u201cpervasive\u201d in the law) that a reasonable person in the employee\u2019s position would find the situation to be abusive.<\/p>\n<p>Each claim must be considered on a case-by-case basis and take into consideration all of the circumstances. Some general guidelines to consider include:<\/p>\n<div>\n<ul style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<li><b>A victim does not need to show that harassment was both severe and frequent \u2013 just one or the other.*<\/b> Sometimes, the more severe the harassment, the less frequent it must be, and vice versa.<\/li>\n<li>One instance of very serious misconduct may be severe enough. For example, one instance of somebody touching an intimate body part, acting violently, or a supervisor using the n-word can be enough to violate the law.<\/li>\n<li>The harasser\u2019s status at the employing organization can be important. Harassment by the company\u2019s owner or the victim\u2019s supervisor can sometimes carry more weight than similar behavior by a coworker or customer.<\/li>\n<li>The victim does not need to show that the harassment led to a change in employment, such as a demotion, reduction of hours or rate of pay, or denial of a promotion. Similarly, the complainant does not need to show that the harassment made them perform worse.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>*I&#8217;m emphasizing this because management-side lawyers like to argue that it must be both severe and pervasive. That&#8217;s obviously not the law but it needs to be said. Over and over. SMH<\/p>\n<div><b>What must employers do<\/b>:\u00a0Employers are responsible for preventing and for quickly ending harassing behavior once they learn about it , even if the harassment has not yet been severe enough or frequent enough to create a hostile work environment. But they have to know about it, so report it! EEOC offers this: &#8220;An employer typically learns about potential harassment when:Somebody complains. The person who complains does not need to be the victim.<\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<li>An owner, manager, or supervisor witnesses the harassing conduct.<\/li>\n<li>The harassing conduct is so open and obvious that an owner, manager, or supervisor reasonably should have known what was happening.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div>These are just a few of the key points raised in this new guidance. It might help if you think you are being subjected to illegal harassment. When in doubt, talk to an employee-side employment lawyer in your state <a href=\"Http:\/\/exchange.nela.org\/findalawyer\">employee-side employment lawyer in your state <\/a>about your rights.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0I can&#8217;t tell you how many times per week I have to tell people that harassment is not generally illegal. Bullying, general harassment because you&#8217;re you, just being mean, are not illegal. If they were, I&#8217;d be a billionaire. 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