Sexual Harassment: Legal Remedy

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Abstract

Sexual harassment at workplace is often ignored. The reasons may the fear of being fired, singled out, discriminated, nitpicking, being burdened with avoidable work, etc. There may be another serious reason which is of unavailability of an efficacious, just, fair and reasonable legal remedy. While making a decision, the courts also considers the context in which the complaint for sexual harassment has been made. The context takes into account the parameters of culture, individuals, their conduct, past record, time, place, profession, legitimate expectations, extraordinary or normal circumstances etc. This case is based in part on court judgments and information retrieved from secondary sources. Incidents and characters mentioned in the case are fictitious.

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Product Type Case
Reference No. GRC0001
Title Sexual Harassment: Legal Remedy
Pages 18
Published on Dec 21, 2009
Year of Event 2009
Authors Agarwal, Anurag K;
Area Gender Centre (GC)
Discipline Public Policy and Law
Sector Agriculture and Animal Husbandry, Banking Finance Insurance (BFI), Cooperatives, Education, Government, Health, Infrastructure, Manufacturing, Miscellaneous, Public Sector, Telecom and Software, Trade, Transportation and Logistics
Keywords Sexual Harassment, Legal Remedy, Arbitration, Courts, Work Place, Contract
Country U.S.A.
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