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Recognizing Quid Pro Quo Sexual Harassment in your Workplace

There are two types of sexual harassment that can occur in the workplace: quid pro quo sexual harassment and harassment that creates a hostile work environment. The latter type functions much like har[...]

Seeking Reasonable Accommodations: Know Whether your Requests are Reasonable

When your personal limits make it necessary for you to alter your workspace to make it possible to perform your job duties, you have the right to request reasonable accommodations for the workspace. T[...]

The Differences Between Illegal Harassment and Workplace Bullying

When harassment is a regular occurrence in a workplace, that workplace may be labeled a hostile work environment. Hostile work environments can hinder every employee’s work performance, not just the[...]

Fed’s Refusal To Collect EEO-1 Data Could Affect Chicago Pay Discrimination Cases

For the first time, acting Equal Employment Opportunity Commission Chair Victoria Lipnic indicated that the agency might shelve the controversial EEO-1 pay data collection requirement. Ever since i[...]

Sexual Harassment Cases In Illinois: A Primer

During the fiscal year 2016, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission received nearly 13,000 sexual harassment complaints. In almost 75 percent of these cases, either the alleged victim or the EEOC[...]

Latest EEOC Numbers Are Mixed Bag For Chicago Discrimination Victims

In fiscal year 2017, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission obtained a near-record amount of money for job bias victims, but much of this money went to cases that had been stalled inside the EEOC[...]

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