Gender-dominated industries—where one gender significantly outnumbers the other—can often be breeding grounds for workplace harassment. It's an issue that affects women in traditionally male-dominated fields like construction or technology and men in sectors typically...
If you’re an employee who has been facing sexual harassment on the job, you certainly know how problematic it can be. You know that it’s a violation of your rights, and it’s frustrating that other people are not respecting those rights on the job. But what you often...
Your employer might be making your life at work pretty rough in retaliation for engaging in protected activity like whistleblowing or filing for employee benefits. They might alter your work conditions, such as your work locations or shifts, slash your wages and...
Everyone deserves a safe and stress-free workplace. In fact, harassment of any kind has no place in the workplace. Every employer has a legal obligation to provide a work environment that is devoid of insult, intimidation and all forms of harassment. Unfortunately,...
Why do harassers do what they do in the workplace? Too often, situations of workplace sexual, racial and cultural harassment surface, and, in many of these incidents, almost seems to be condoned within the culture of that workplace. A workplace harasser usually is a...
