Sexual Harassment FAQ’s

If you feel that you have been the victim sexual harassment, you should contact a sexual harassment lawyer immediately to understand your legal rights because you have a very limited time to take action. Any delay may cause you to lose your rights.

The Dashtaki Law Firm offers a free and confidential initial consultation of review your case. Contact us today so that we can begin our investigation.

The following examples do not foretell any particular result in your case and are presented for their illustrative value only.

• If you feel that you have been the victim of discrimination, you should contact an sexual harassment lawyer immediately to understand your legal rights because you have a very limited time to take action. Any delay may cause you to lose your rights.
• An employer has been held liable where a supervisor asked a victim about sexual conduct three to four times a week and made continuous egregious and derogatory comments to the victim in front of co-workers.
• A single incident of unlawful and inappropriate touching is enough to create a hostile work environment. In one case a plant foreman forced a victim’s face against his groin in the presence of male co-workers, forcing her to leave crying while they laughed.
• A female employee who is exposed to daily sexual banter, sexual innuendo, crude jokes, posters of a sexual nature and demeaning comments regarding her body and clothes is a victim of sexual harassment.

Employers may be responsible for the sexual harassment of a non-employee if the employer or supervisor knew or should have known of the harassment, failed to take immediate and appropriate action, and had some degree of control over the non-employee.

The victim of sexual harassment does not have to be the person at whom the unwelcome conduct is directed. The victim may be someone who is affected by bad conduct when it is merely directed at another person. The victim does not have to be the opposite sex of the harasser.

An employee should notify an employer whenever they reasonably believe themselves to be the victim of harassment. If the conduct is severe, it may be enough that it occurred only once. If the conduct is less severe, but occurred over an extended period of time, that too may be sufficient.

A hostile work environment occurs when unwelcome conduct has the purpose or effect of unreasonably interfering with an individual’s work performance, creating an intimidating, hostile, or offensive working environment.

• Notify your employer immediately.
• If you employer has a sexual harassment policy in place, follow it and expect your employer to follow it.
• If you feel that you have been the victim of discrimination, you should contact an sexual harassment lawyer (link to case submission) immediately to understand your legal rights because you have a very limited time to take action. Any delay may cause you to lose your rights.
• At any time, contact the Missouri Commission on Human Rights or the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission should you feel you are a victim of sexual harassment and have additional questions, or should you wish to file a Charge of Discrimination contact the sexual harassment lawyers at The Dashtaki Law Firm.
• The Dashtaki Law Firm offers a free and confidential sexual harassment case evaluation contact us today to so we may begin our investigation.

Sexual harassment can take many forms, including but not limited to supervisor harassment, co-employee harassment, and even harassment by non-employees.

Yes, both men and women can be victims of sexual harassment. Anyone being sexually harassed, regardless of gender, should know that the law protects them and should feel encouraged to take appropriate action.

Simply put, sexual harassment is any unwelcome verbal or physical conduct directed at a victim on the basis of gender.