Los Angeles sexual harassment attorney

Los Angeles employment lawyer Perry Smith represents employees who have been sexually harassed in the workplace. Call 888-356-2529 for more information.

What is Sexual Harassment?

Legally, sexual harassment is considered a form of sex discrimination. It is illegal in all forms, regardless of the genders of the harasser or the victim, or their working relationship to one another. Sexual harassment is divided into two different forms:

• Quid Pro Quo: If an employer or co-worker offers you some kind of benefit, such as a promotion or good assignments, in exchange for sexual favors, this is an act of illegal harassment. It does not matter if any physical contact occurs, or what your response is. Once the offer has been made, you have grounds for a lawsuit.
• Hostile Work Environment: This occurs when unacceptable sexual harassment becomes so widespread in a workplace that employees’ performance is affected. Unacceptable behavior may include lewd language or gestures, the display of pornographic text or images, unwanted physical contact, and insulting or threatening sexual comments. You do not have to be the targeted victim in order to file a sexual harassment suit; you only have to be negatively affected by the behavior.

How Can I Fight Sexual Harassment?

If you have been the victim of a quid pro quo offer or a hostile work environment, you may win compensation for your suffering by filing a sexual harassment suit. Unfortunately, sexual harassment is very difficult to prove, as those who perpetrate it are often careful to cover their tracks.

To file a quid pro quo lawsuit, the plaintiff must be able to demonstrate that the offending exchange occurred. If there are no written documents or recorded messages to use as evidence, it often becomes one person’s word against another’s.

In order to win a hostile work environment lawsuit, the plaintiff must demonstrate that lewd behavior was widespread, that management failed to address it, and that the plaintiff was injured physically or emotionally by it.

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If you have been a victim of this unacceptable behavior, contact the Los Angeles sexual harassment attorney Perry Smith at 888-356-2529.