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  2. Harassment - Wikipedia

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    Harassment covers a wide range of behaviors of an offensive nature. It is commonly understood as behavior that demeans, humiliates, and intimidates a person, and it is characteristically identified by its unlikelihood in terms of social and moral reasonableness. In the legal sense, these are behaviors that appear to be disturbing, upsetting, or ...

  3. Workplace harassment - Wikipedia

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    While sexual harassment is a form of workplace harassment, the United States Department of Labor defines workplace harassment as being more than just sexual harassment. [10] "It may entail quid pro quo harassment, which occurs in cases in which employment decisions or treatment are based on submission to or rejection of unwelcome conduct ...

  4. Sexual harassment - Wikipedia

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    There are a number of legal options for a complainant in the U.S.: mediation, filing with the EEOC or filing a claim under a state Fair Employment Practices (FEP) statute (both are for workplace sexual harassment), filing a common law tort, etc. [231] Not all sexual harassment will be considered severe enough to form the basis for a legal claim.

  5. Hostile work environment - Wikipedia

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    The court case that shifted us from ‘reasonable person’ to ‘reasonable woman’ was Ellison v. Brady, 1991. This case is extremely important because it gave new meaning to the word. The new standard was behavior a reasonable woman would think was extreme enough to change the terms of employment and establish a hostile work environment. [6]

  6. Street harassment - Wikipedia

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    Street harassment is a form of harassment, primarily sexual harassment that consists of unwanted sexualised comments, provocative gestures, honking, wolf whistles, indecent exposures, stalking, persistent sexual advances, and touching by strangers, in public areas such as streets, shopping malls and public transportation. [1]

  7. Power harassment - Wikipedia

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    A government survey in 2016 found that more than 30% of workers had experienced power harassment in the preceding three years. [6] The Japanese term "power harassment" (パワー・ハラスメント pawa harasumento, often shortened to pawahara) was independently coined by Yasuko Okada of Tokoha Gakuen Junior College in 2002. [7]

  8. Sexual harassment in education in the United States

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    The definition of sexual harassment includes harassment by both peers and individuals in a position of power relative to the person being harassed. In schools, though sexual harassment initiated by students is most common, it can also be perpetrated by teachers or other school employees, and the victim can be a student, a teacher, or other ...

  9. Restraining order - Wikipedia

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    Federal law prohibits any person who is subject to a state protective order from possessing a firearm, [23] provided that the protected party is an intimate partner, meaning a spouse or former spouse, or a person with whom the protected party has had a child. [24] Violating a restraining order is a deportable offense. [citation needed]