Los Angeles Sexual Harassment Lawyers

Sexual Harassment by Customers

Discussions about sexual harassment in the workplace almost always involve one individual harassing a co-worker, or a superior (allegedly) sexually harassing her/his subordinate. Unfortunately, however, a very serious type of workplace sexual harassment is often missing from the discussion. That type of sexual harassment involves a business’s customers harassing its employees.

A common example of such harassment can occur in restaurants, where a customer may harass waiters or waitresses. Or, in an airplane an airline's customers may harass the airhosts or airhostesses. But sexual harassment in the workplace can also occur in white-collar jobs. For example, say company A hires company B to streamline its business processes and an individual from company A harasses an employee from company B.

In all of the cases above a business's customer is harassing that business's employee. It is extremely important for businesses to take immediate action to combat such sexual harassment customers so that its employees can have a safe, secure work environment. Sometime, however, a company may choose to ignore sexual harassment by a customer because it does not want to lose business. But not taking action to protect an employee is unethical and may warrant legal action not only against the customer but also against the company.

Speak with a Los Angeles Sexual Harassment Lawyer

If you have been sexually harassed by any of your company's clients or customers and your company has not take immediate, forceful to protect you, contact the Los Angeles sexual harassment lawyers of Perry Smith by calling 888-356-2529.