Massachusetts Sexual Harassment IQ Test

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The main civil rights act dealing with employment discrimination is Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, as amended. It prohibits discrimination in employment on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, or national origin. Sexual harassment is a type of sex discrimination which is a violation of Title VII. Employers need to have written policies forbidding sexual harassment. Offenses that would constitute sexual harassment include:


" Demands for sexual favors in exchange for job benefits (quid pro quo);

" A job "environment" that involved sexual suggestions;

" Hostile conduct toward an employee who refused to provide sexual favors;

" Verbal or physical suggestions with a sexual overtone.


A supervisor, as well as the employer, can be held liable for failing to take action regarding complaints of sexual harassment by one employee toward another. The Sexual Harassment IQ Test will help you determine how well your employee's understand sexual harassment law. It also may help you prove to the court, if you are sued, that you exercised reasonable care to prevent or promptly correct any harassing behavior.

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Harassing behavior may include, but is not limited to, epithets, derogatory comments or slurs and lewd propositions, assault, impeding or blocking movement, offensive touching or any physical interference with normal work or movement, and visual insults, such as derogatory posters or cartoons.

Harassment becomes unlawful where 1) enduring the offensive conduct becomes a condition of continued employment, or 2) the conduct is severe or pervasive enough to create a work environment that a reasonable person would consider intimidating, hostile, or abusive.

The subjective test is whether it is unwelcome and sufficiently severe to the complainant. And the objective test is whether, from a reasonable person's perspective, the behavior would also meet that standard.

In order for behavior to meet the standards of harassment, it must:Involve discrimination against a protected class of people.Involve offensive conduct.Include unwelcome behavior.Involve some level of severity or pervasiveness that affects your ability to work.

The reasonable person standard aims to avoid the potential for parties to claim they suffered harassment when most people would not find such instances offensive if they themselves were the subject of such acts.

According to the penal code of California, any of the following acts can be classified as harassment.Assault.Battery.Credible Threat of Violence.Stalking.Harassing Behavior.Civil Harassment.Domestic Harassment and Violence.Elder or Dependent Harassment.More items...?

It has four elements:Unwelcome;Sexual conduct or conduct directed at a protected category;Offensive to the recipient and to a reasonable person; and,Conduct that is severe or pervasive (repeated).

Power harassment is a form of harassment and workplace bullying in which someone in a position of greater power uses that power to harass or bully a lower-ranking person.

The 'reasonable person standard' is a legal term often used in cases of sexual harassment. In layman's terms, it refers to a hypothetically reasonable person with a reasonable way of interpreting and reacting to a situation of sexual harassment.

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Massachusetts Sexual Harassment IQ Test