Mississippi Employee Sexual Harassment Lawyers
Employers with 15 or more employees are required by federal law to provide their employees with a workplace that is free of sexual harassment. Unwelcome sexual advances, requests for sexual favors, and other verbal or physical contact of a sexual nature constitute sexual harassment when this conduct:
- Affects an individual's employment
- Unreasonably interferes with an individual's work performance
- Creates an intimidating, hostile or offensive work environment
If you have been subjected to sexual harassment at your workplace, the experienced sexual harassment attorneys at our law firm, Louis H. Watson Jr., P.A., in Jackson, Mississippi, are ready to help you.
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We fight for the rights and best interests of our clients.
It is unfortunate but true. More than 40 years after the enactment of Title VII, the Civil Rights Act of 1964 -- which declares sexual harassment to be a form of unlawful discrimination -- sexual harassment is still a regular occurrence in the workplace. It occurs in many forms:
- The victim may be a woman or a man
- The harasser may be a woman or a man
- The harasser may be of the same or opposite sex of the victim
- The harasser may be the victim's supervisor, a supervisor in another area, a co-worker, an agent of the employer, on a non-employee
- The harasser's conduct must be unwelcome
- The victim may or may not have been dismissed
- The victim may or may not have suffered economic injury
- The victim may be anyone affected by the offensive conduct
Tell Us about Your Situation
Workplace harassment includes anything quid pro quo, in other words, when a victim is threatened with termination unless he or she provides a sexual favor. Other actions considered unlawful under Title VII include offensive or intimidating gestures and comments on a continual basis that an employer is aware of but does not take reasonable action to stop.
If you are a victim of sexual harassment at work, we want to know about your situation. Prior to seeking a free consultation at our law firm, please submit a client intake questionnaire so we can analyze your legal case quickly and promptly. We handle cases throughout Mississippi.
