What If I've Been Sexually Harassed by Someone in a Position of Power?
The power dynamic in a discrimination case is very important, specifically in a sexual harassment case, because oftentimes, you have a high-level executive engaging in sexual harassment against a lower-level employee. That lower-level employee, they're afraid to jeopardize their career. They're afraid to make a complaint against the highest-level executive, for example, a CFO, a CEO, the president, the owner of the company. They're afraid that a complaint will mean career suicide. So they endure that harassment day in and day out. The harasser is taking advantage of that dynamic. They're taking advantage of the fact that they're in a high position of power and they control every aspect of that person's job. That's why I like it when people come to me because we can sort of turn the tables and we can change that balance of power.
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Phillips & Associates, PLLC
