When sexual harassment victims come to us, we cannot undo what was done to them. However, we can support them in every way possible that we know how to.
These are all things that should be examined by an employment lawyer in your state.
Sure, the employer was okay with you being pregnant, but now, because you have to go for increased amount of medical appointments, you feel like they’re
So what if there’s no evidence to support your claim of sexual harassment? If you can sit on a stand, if you can testify about your experience, that is enough evidence to prove that you experience sexual harassment.
Here are some examples of ways that sexual harassment occurs that are not strictly physical. One, inappropriate comments or jokes, unwanted advances, receiving sexually explicit messages or images, inappropriate content or discussions being shared in the workplace.
This is a tough subject. Nobody really enjoys talking about it. Certainly not the people that engage in the appropriate sexual harassment.
And more so the victim. You have stories out there where people come out 10, 20, 30 years later after experiencing horrific sexual harassment.
You go and tell them that you’re pregnant and then they terminate you for bad performance. They didn’t talk about your performance before and they don’t even give you the opportunity to rehab your performance like they do for most of your other employees.
In California, there’s no hard. Law that governs the amount of time you could be absent from a job before it’s considered abandonment.
I think it’s messed up that women feel like they have to hide their pregnancies in the workplace. It’s unsafe because women feel like they’re gonna have to not go to doctors appointments.
They’re not gonna feel like they can take time off to take care of things that are important for the pregnancy.
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