Can I Sue For Sexual Harassment?

Our sexual harassment attorneys can guide you onto the right path including whether you should sue for sexual harassment, and just how much your case is worth. Sexual assault as well as verbal, physical sexual harassment, or harassing text messages from your supervisor, or manager are sufficiently aggravating that one’s emotional tranquility is interrupted if not destroyed. The levels of stress suffered by victims of sexual harassment are severe. Severe mental upset as a result of unwanted sexual harassment can also have physical manifestations such as high blood pressure, hair loss, changes in weight, skin problems, an inability to sleep, and teeth grinding to mention a few. If you have been through sexual harassment, it is time to sue if an experienced sexual harassment lawyer tells you that your situation amounts of what is called, “Actionable sexual harassment.”

When you call 909-663-2100 you will connect with an experienced sexual harassment attorney. The sexual harassment lawyers at the Employment Lawyers Group have decades of experience helping victims of workplace sexual harassment. They understand how hard it was to go to work knowing sexual harassment might, or would occur.

Workplace sexual harassment takes many forms. Initially, victims of sexual harassment might not realize the intention of the sexual harasser. They might think the conduct was just being friendly. Others are shocked. The bizarreness and inappropriate nature of sexual harassment often blind sights victims who might wonder if it is really happening, or remain frozen not knowing what to do. All of this is uncomfortable Sexual harassment is about not being comfortable. It is important to address the problem of sexual harassment before victims become less comfortable in their own bodies. Unfortunately, many sexual harassment victims report they change the way they dress and look in order to deter clearly illegal sexual harassment. Our workplace sexual harassment lawyers understand your goals and fears.

This is How Sexual Harassment Damaged Some of Our Clients. These are settlements and not verdicts, our clients had to win in a jury trial:

• $1.052,000 present cash value for Sexual harassment in a warehouse
• $873,362 present cash value for sexual harassment at a truck stop
• $636,827 present cash value for sex and age discrimination of women
• $792,420 present cash value for sexual harassment at a gas station
• $622,000 present cash value for sexual harassment of a delivery driver
• $315,000 Sexual harassment of a lesbian woman by straight man)
• $360,000 present cash value for sexual harassment & employment termination
• $463,000 present cash value for sexual harassment in a supermarket
• $271,000 present cash value for two kitchen workers sexually harassed
• $303,575 present cash value for sexual harassment by store customers
• $286,831 present cash value for male-on-male sexual harassment in arbitration
• $270,000 present cash value for acts of sexual harassment by CEO
• $246,000 present cash value for sexual harassment by a registered sex offender
• $190,000 Sexual Harassment in the medical coding industry
• $185,000 For sexual harassment of a woman 35 years older than the harasser
• $233,878 present cash value for sexual harassment of an eight-teen year old
• restaurant worker
• $150,000 Sexual harassment by a manager of an adult daycare program

However, other lawyers know about the Employment Lawyers Group’s successes and experience which does matter if have a case we can prove that has caused you damage

Start your lawsuit for sexual harassment by calling 909-663-2100

What Is Sexual Harassment?

Sexual harassment does not have to be based upon requests for romance, dates, or sex. It does not have to be based upon a physical attraction. Sometimes low-level supervisors, especially if they are new, are testing their power and control. Acts of sexual harassment are meant to show dominance over the victim. Examples of sexual harassment include:

• Text messages in which obscene pictures are sent, there is an attempt to flirt, or invite Oneself to where the sexual harassment victim is
• Verbal comments relating to one’s body, sex, requests to see the person outside of work
• Touching the victim’s body maybe claiming it is due to close quarters, an accident, or to prevent something that would never actually happen
• Touching parts of the victim’s body there is never a reason to touch
• Blocking the sexual harassment victim, or causing their confinement
• Writing strange love letters to the victim
• Buying the victim unwanted gifts
• Compliments about the victim’s clothing, physical appearance
• Quid pro quo sexual harassment involves the harasser offering something, usually job benefits such as a promotion, or better hours in exchange for sexual harassment, touchings, or dates

Sexual Harassment Complaints, Retaliation

Our sexual harassment law firm is here for you if you are not able to work for your employer after you complain about sexual harassment. A variety of things can occur after a complaint of sexual harassment. Some victims of sexual harassment are simply unable to continue working for the same employer due to the sexual harassment. We are here for you if you were forced to quit due to sexual harassment. In other situations, the employer might refuse to remove the sexual harasser from the victim’s scheduled work areas. Perhaps if the sexual harassment was serious, the sexual harasser should have been fired and the victim feels the company was just not there for them, or the employers is not a law-abiding company they want to invest their future in.

Obviously if the victim of sexual harassment is retaliated against after complaining it is important to take legal action. Retaliation includes firing the victim, reducing their hours, giving them a less desirable shift, changing their job, firing them, or transferring them instead of the harasser.

Employees have a right to complain about sexual harassment. A failure to complain about sexual harassment is not legally fatal if the sexual harassment was done by a person who was a supervisor, or higher, but employers might raise the avoidable consequence defense and claim had you complained earlier the harassment would have stopped. In all cases, there is not supposed to be retaliation due to a legitimate complaint of sexual harassment whether the sexual harassment happened to you, or a coworker.

If the sexual harassment has been occurring for a long time, and it was done by a supervisor or higher it is important to call our sexual harassment law firm at 909- 663-1200. A discussion should be had about whether you should simply sue opposed to getting into a sexual harassment investigation that will probably go nowhere, but the employer will have a chance to question you without a lawyer present.