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- Title: Responding to Allegations of 3rd Party Sexual Harassment: The Customer is Not Always Right.
- Author : Ethical and Regulatory Issues Journal of Legal
- Release Date : January 01, 2005
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 276 KB
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ABSTRACT Employee allegations of sexual harassment by supervisors and co-workers continue to be a complex human resource management problem for employers. While recent Supreme Court decisions in Burlington Industries, Inc. v. Ellerth and Faragher v. City of Boca Raton provided employers with guidance in dealing with harassment in the workplace, allegations of harassment involving customers, clients, vendors, and suppliers is emerging as an area of liability that many employers may have overlooked and continue to struggle with. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission regulations have long held that employers may also be responsible for the acts of nonemployees with respect to sexual harassment of employees in the workplace, and in recent years more U.S. courts have relied on these regulations in recognizing the existence of a cause of action for harassment by third parties. This paper examines recent court decisions dealing with allegations of sexual harassment involving third parties, the potential legal and employee relations consequences associated with sexual harassment of employees by third parties, and what organizations can do to minimize the negative consequences and employer liability associated with third party sexual harassment