Sexual harassment suit settled; Ex-town administrator was focus of complaint.
Byline: Aaron Nicodemus SUTTON - A sexual harassment lawsuit filed against the town and former Town Administrator Joshua A. Handverger has been settled out of court. Mary Labrie of Millbury, the town's former human resources coordinator and assistant town accountant, filed the lawsuit in April...

Sexual harassment: dressing for a hostile environment.
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Over the years, the dress code in the workplace has become acceptably relaxed, influenced largely by the clothing industry, and in particular, the Levi Strauss Corporation (Lilly, 2003; McPherson, 1997). In late 1992, the company had an independent study conducted regarding a reported trend toward...

Christmas Party Season And Sexual Harassment Claims.
It's that time of the season - Christmas parties are upon us. Christmas parties provide staff and clients with a great opportunity to interact in a relaxed social environment without the constraints of work. Businesses often put a lot of time and expense into these events to make it...

Journal of Research on Adolescence: Gender, pubertal development, and peer sexual harassment predict objectified body consciousness in early adolescence.
Objectified body consciousness (OBC) is the tendency to view one's body as an object for others to look at and evaluate, and the primary goal of this study was 'to better understand the relations between OBC and factors hypothesised to influence its development'. These factors, generally, are the physical...

Significant Damages Payout Plus Costs For Sexual Harassment Claim.
Key Point Anti-discrimination tribunals and courts are beginning to order more generous payouts Anti-discrimination tribunals are increasingly prepared to order generous awards for damages. In the recent decision of Tan v Xenos (No 3) (Anti-Discrimination) [2008] VCAT 584 the Victorian Civil and Administrative...

Experiences of sexual harassment of women health workers in four hospitals in Kolkata, India.
Abstract: In 1997, the Supreme Court of India recognised sexual harassment in the workplace as a violation of human rights. However, little is known about the extent or persistence of sexual harassment. To obtain an understanding of women's experiences of sexual harassment in the health sector, an exploratory study...

Sexual harassment experiences and harmful alcohol use in a military sample: differences in gender and the mediating role of depression *.
RESEARCHERS AND CLINICIANS ALIKE are interested in the effects of sexual harassment on mental health, including associations with alcohol use (Freels et al., 2005; Richman et al., 1996, 1999) and depression (Richman et al., 2002). The majority of studies examining sexual harassment and alcohol use have found associations among...

Cross-cultural differences in perceiving sexual harassment: demographic incidence rates of sexual harassment/sexual aggression in Latin America.
This descriptive study reports on perceptions of sexual harassment and sexual aggression incidences in Latin America using data from the People's Security Surveys (PSS) conducted with 8108 employees (approximately 48% male and 52% female) from three Latin American countries--Argentina, Brazil, and Chile--who were chosen by the International Labour Organization...

Sexual harassment: facility not liable, took appropriate action.
A member of a nursing home's non-licensed staff sued the nursing home for sexual harassment, three separate incidents involving three different residents. The US District Court for the Northern District of Illinois ruled there was no basis to sue for sexual harassment. However, the court left the...

Hidden in plain sight: achieving more just results in hostile work environment sexual harassment cases by reexamining Supreme Court precedent.
ABSTRACT Lower federal courts often fail to provide plaintiffs in sexual harassment cases the relief intended by Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and mandated by the Supreme Court when it recognized the cause of action twenty years ago. There is little doubt that...