Harassment - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: harassmentsexual harassment
sexual harassment : employment discrimination consisting of unwelcome verbal or physical conduct directed at an employee because of his or her sex ;also : the tort of engaging in such discrimination see also hostile environment sexual harassment, quid pro quo sexual harassment NOTE: Sexual harassment has been found by federal courts to violate the protection in the Civil Rights Act of 1964 against discrimination in employment. There are also state statutes under which sexual harassment actions may be brought. In order to recover against an employer under a sexual harassment suit, the plaintiff has to show that the harassment affected the employment (as by being severe or pervasive) and that the employer is liable under respondeat superior because of actual or constructive knowledge of the harassment. Strict liability is often imposed for harassment of an employee by a supervisor or for quid pro quo sexual harassment. ...
hostile environment sexual harassment
hostile environment sexual harassment : sexual harassment that has the effect of unreasonably interfering with a victim's work performance or creating an intimidating, hostile, or offensive working environment that affects the victim's psychological well-being called also hostile environment harassment compare quid pro quo sexual harassment ...
same-sex harassment
same-sex harassment The type of sexual harassment that occurs when a male sexually harasses a male, or a female sexually harasses a female. ...
harass
harass [Middle French harasser to exhaust, fatigue, from harer to set a dog on, from Old French hare, interjection used to incite dogs] : to subject persistently and wrongfully to annoying, offensive, or troubling behavior [a collection agency ing a debtor] see also sexual harassment ha·rass·er n ha·rass·ment n ...
quid pro quo sexual harassment
quid pro quo sexual harassment : sexual harassment in which the satisfaction of sexual demands is made the condition of job benefits or continued employment or is used as the basis for employment decisions regarding the individual compare hostile environment sexual harassment ...
hostile environment harassment
hostile environment harassment : employment discrimination consisting of unwelcome verbal or physical conduct (as comments, jokes, or acts) relating to the victim's constitutionally or statutorily protected classification (as race, religion, ethnic origin, or age) that has the effect of substantially interfering with a person's work performance or of creating a hostile work environment ;esp : hostile environment sexual harassment ...
Harassment
The act of harassing or state of being harassed worry annoyance anxiety...
Sexual harassment
Sexual harassment, refers to a type of employment discrimination consisting in verbal or physical abuse of a sexual nature, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1379.Sexual harassment is a form of sex discrimination projected through unwelcome sexual advances, request for sexual favours and other verbal or physical conduct with sexual overtones, whether directly or by implication, particularly when submission to or rejection of such a conduct by the female employee was capable of being used for effecting the employment of the female employee and unreasonably interfering with her work performance and had the effect of creating an intimidating or hostile working environment for her, Apparel Export Promotion Council v. A. K. Chopra, AIR 1999 SC 625 (633): (1999) 1 SCC 759....
harassed
troubled persistently especially with petty annoyances as harassed working mothers...
Harasser
One who harasses...
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