Question

Q3. “Sexual harassment is a problem that occurs between two employees. The company should not be held liable for the actions of misbehaving employees.” Do you agree or disagree with this statement? Explain your answer.

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Answer 1

Hers is the answer for your question. :-

I totally disagree with this statement .

The companies will be held liable for the actions of misbehaving employees .

The companies or the employers will always be held liable for the action of the employees who misbehave or harass the other employees .

The civil rights act 1964 strictly states that it provides protection to the employees and it makes illegal for an employer for not taking action and for not responding on sexual harassments.

The U.S supreme court has stated that an employer is always liable for a healthy work environment .

The company has to list the do's and dont's in it's work place where the employee can see it .

It completely protects an employers from sexual harrassment claims.

There are certain suggestions that protects the employer from liability. These sugestions are as follows :-

- Establishing a written non discrimination policy including sexual harrassment it should clearly discribe a sexual harassment.

- The policy should include the way an employee can complaint about the sexual harassment .

- Incase the supervisor is harassing the complaint should not go to him instead the complaint should go to any higher authority.

- Establishing a helpline or a help desk for the employees to report this type of harassment and also any type of harassments .

- The employer or the company should have a plan for investigating this type of complaints .

- If the complaint is of high level that it includes any criminal content then employer should direct the employee to make a police report..

- The employee should investigate all the complaints thoroughly and he should take neccessary actions to make changes in the recruitment and hiring policies so that these type of employees can be stopped at the early stages.

The employee should also have a talk with the both the parties who had complained and on whom the complaint was made and he should know in deep like , what had happened , when, why, and how it happened .

All the information collected during the investigation should be kept confidential and it should not be shared with other employees.

The action which the company or the employer will be

- firing the employee from his job

- temporary suspension of employee  

- Liable for the damages .

And other punishments based on the laws and policies of that company.

The equal employment opportunity commission (EEOC) is the federal agency responsible for the investigation of charges of sexual discrimination at work place.

like this each and every state and country and union will have their own commissions to deal this types of issues.

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