Workplace Harassment
Federal and Ohio employment laws prohibit workplace harassment motivated by an employee's protected class or activity. Protected classes include Race, Sex, Disability (Real or Perceived), Age, National Origin, Religion, Pregnancy, Gender or Color. Protected Activities can include requesting protected medical leave, requesting reasonable accommodation for a disability, or complaining about discrimination or other unlawful conditions in the workplace. Ohio employers are required to take prompt, remedial action in response to any employee's complaint of workplace harassment.
In today's workplace, harassment is no less real, but has become more deeply concealed. That is to say, managers and supervisors are no longer likely to openly admit that an employment decision was motivated or informed by an employee's protected class. As a result, most employees who are suffering workplace harassment may not have all of the evidence of unlawful harassment available to them initially. In such cases an employment attorney will investigate the employer's conduct, often in conjunction with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission or the Ohio Civil Rights Commission.
Employees who feel they are working in a hostile environment, or who believe they have suffered wrongful termination or adverse employment action in retaliation for complaining about workplace harassment should contact a workplace harassment attorney to assess whether their employer's conduct is unlawful and to assess the value of their potential claims.
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Federal and Ohio employment laws prohibit workplace harassment motivated by an employee's protected class or activity. Protected classes include Race, Sex, Disability (Real or Perceived), Age, National Origin, Religion, Pregnancy, Gender or Color. Protected Activities can include requesting protected medical leave, requesting reasonable accommodation for a disability, or complaining about discrimination or other unlawful conditions in the workplace. Ohio employers are required to take prompt, remedial action in response to any employee's complaint of workplace harassment.
In today's workplace, harassment is no less real, but has become more deeply concealed. That is to say, managers and supervisors are no longer likely to openly admit that an employment decision was motivated or informed by an employee's protected class. As a result, most employees who are suffering workplace harassment may not have all of the evidence of unlawful harassment available to them initially. In such cases an employment attorney will investigate the employer's conduct, often in conjunction with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission or the Ohio Civil Rights Commission.
Employees who feel they are working in a hostile environment, or who believe they have suffered wrongful termination or adverse employment action in retaliation for complaining about workplace harassment should contact a workplace harassment attorney to assess whether their employer's conduct is unlawful and to assess the value of their potential claims.
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