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She distinguishes between two types of sexual harassment (see pp. 32–42): "quid pro quo", meaning sexual harassment "in which sexual compliance is exchanged, or proposed to be exchanged, for an employment opportunity (p. 32)" and; the type of harassment that "arises when sexual harassment is a persistent condition of work (p. 32)".
Until 1986, the only form of sexual harassment that was illegal was quid pro quo harassment, where your boss explicitly said something like, “Sleep with me or lose your job.” The fact that employers these days are responsible for preventing harassment, and are on the hook for millions of dollars in punitive damages if they don’t, is not a ...
Pamela Price alleged a classic case of what is now known as quid pro quo sexual harassment, when a course instructor offered to give her an 'A' if she complied with his sexual demands. [5] Lisa Stone alleged that English professor Michael Cooke propositioned her during his office hours while putting his hand on her knee. Ann Olivarius alleged ...
Ellerth is most referenced for its two-part affirmative defense for supervisor sexual harassment. In the case, a supervisor is defined by the ability to take a Tangible Employment Action. A Tangible Employment Action makes the company vicariously liable because the agency relationship was used to take the action.
On July 5, 2007, Bakhtiar's lawyer wrote to Fox News saying that she had been unlawfully treated and terminated, citing a hostile environment of sexual harassment; quid pro quo sexual harassment ...
Quid pro quo harassment also occurs when an employee makes an evaluative decision, or provides or withholds professional opportunities based on another employee's submission to verbal, nonverbal or physical conduct of a sexual nature. Quid pro quo harassment is equally unlawful whether the victim resists and suffers the threatened harm or ...
Alina Habba, one of Donald Trump’s lawyers, has reportedly quietly settled a lawsuit with a former Bedminster golf club waitress over an illegal non-disclosure agreement that the former employee ...
Faragher v. City of Boca Raton, 524 U.S. 775 (1998), is a US labor law case of the United States Supreme Court in which the Court identified the circumstances under which an employer may be held liable under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 for the acts of a supervisory employee whose sexual harassment of subordinates has created a hostile work environment amounting to employment ...