What Are Considered Sexual Advances in the Workplace?
Sexual advances can constitute sexual harassment if they're unwelcome sexual advances. There's no rubric or rulebook on what constitutes a sexual advance. For example, it could be physical touching, it could be groping, and it could also be more subtle types of physical touching. So, someone caressing your hand or someone playing footsies with you under the table, and if that goes on for an extended period of time, that's something that you might want to document for the purposes of a sexual harassment claim. And a lot of times, these types of physical conduct are accompanied by perverse comments, propositions, emails, text messages, and all of that is important evidence for a sexual harassment case. We handle this on a day-to-day basis. It's something that's very important to me because I see how it affects my clients. And while it is difficult, I enjoy being the person to help them.
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Phillips & Associates, PLLC
