After All These Years – Why Are We STILL Talking About Sexual Harassment?

I intended to visit the age-old topic of sexual harassment anyway, because I recently saw that a California winery just agreed to pay $1.5M to end an EEOC led sexual harassment case.   But then, the Congressman who may well have been California’s leading candidate for Governor got hit with massive sexual harassment and assault allegations,…

Bad Behavior in the Workplace – Sex and Violence

There tend to be themes to my client calls, and there have been a couple in the last few weeks that involve people making bad choices.  I will break them down into a few subcategories. Employees Getting Cozy – The first issue involves fraternization amongst employees.  For some reason, in the last few weeks, we…