Quid Pro Quo Harassment Lawyer

The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) guidelines regarding Discrimination Because of Sex (29 C.F.R. Section 1604.11) define two different kinds of sexual harassment:

1. Quid pro quo – Quid pro quo sexual harassment occurs when “submission to or rejection of such conduct by an individual is used as the basis for employment decisions affecting such individual.”
2. Hostile working environment – Get more information about sexual harassment hostile work environments and examples of hostile workplaces by clicking this link.

All forms of sexual harassment, including quid pro quo sexual harassment, are illegal under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. However, in order to have successful quid pro quo or hostile work environment cases, workers must have experienced severe or pervasive (widespread) effects on their employment, which in turn created the hostile workplace.

Your employment attorney must build a strong quid pro quo sexual harassment case by determining if the sexual conduct, whether it occurred one time or several times, can be considered severe or pervasive to create a quid pro quo hostile work environment.