When Do Discussions About Sexual Harassment At Work Constitute Reporting Which Requires Investigation? This case addresses an issue in sexual harassment cases that comes up often in real life experience but is not often the central issue of an opinion from a federal court of appeals. It has to do with reporting of sexual harassment …
Sexual Harassment Victim Wins Important Appeal In Second Circuit Read More »
In a landmark decision, California’s Supreme Court held that two women who were not involved in a workplace affair had grounds to sue because the women who were having affairs with the boss received preferential treatment. Prison and party don’t normally go together in my mind. But after reading about the workplace where the harassment …
Author of Girl on Top: Your Guide to Turning Dating Rules into Career Success Let’s face it. We spend more waking hours at work than at home. And considering the fact that men think about sex every 52 seconds (true stat!), to think that hookups aren’t taking place in the office is not only absurd, …
Sex At Work: Guidelines to Avoiding a Sticky Situation Read More »
The firing of 1,800 apparently undocumented workers at American Apparel’s Los Angeles garment factory, forced by a federal investigation, is an example of the Obama administration’s new approach to workplace enforcement, which avoids the Bush administration’s militarized raids. Unlike other companies targeted for immigration enforcement, American Apparel’s factory boasts positive working conditions and relatively high …
American Apparel Stripped of 1,800 Workers – to What Effect? Read More »
Note: On Friday, February 20 at 8:30 pm (check local listings at pbs.org), NOW on PBS collaborates with the Schuster Institute for Investigative Journalism at Brandeis University to bring you a broadcast investigation of teen sexual harassment in the workplace. Reporter Maria Hinojosa talks below about the experience of her investigation. I always talk about …
Teen Sexual Harassment on the Job – NOW on PBS Investigation Airs February 20 Read More »
Madeline Messa is a 3L at Syracuse University College of Law. She graduated from Penn State with a degree in journalism. With her legal research and writing for Workplace Fairness, she strives to equip people with the information they need to be their own best advocate.
