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[...]
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[...]
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[...]
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[...]
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[...]
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[...]