Category Archives: Types of Harassment

We explain the different types of sexual harassment claims that can be filed in Los Angeles.

Discretionary Standard

Posted on December 10, 2011 by lb

In order to prove that an employer’s conduct created a hostile working environment, you must show that the work environment could be perceived as both objectively and subjectively offensive – that a reasonable person would find hostile or abusive, and … Continue reading →

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Severe & Pervasive Harassment

Posted on December 3, 2011 by lb

Federal law as well as Los Angeles law requires that for a hostile working environment sexual harassment complaint to be action, it must be sufficiently severe and pervasive to alter the conditions of employment and create an abusive working environment. … Continue reading →

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Hostile work environment sexual harassment

Posted on December 2, 2011 by lb

To find that an employer’s conduct has created a hostile work environment under Title VII, the plaintiff has to show that the complained conduct was serve or pervasive and that the enviornment could be both objectively and subjectively perceived as … Continue reading →

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