Sexual Harassment

White Plains Sexual Harassment Claims Lawyers

The employment law firm of Sapir & Frumkin LLP, in White Plains, New York, has experience you can rely on to help you resolve your sexual harassment or discrimination legal concerns and claims. Since 1995, we have been helping employers and employees avoid and resolve sexual harassment disputes that arise in the workplace. We understand that sexual harassment on the job is an emotionally charged issue. We have the skills and resources necessary to cut to the heart of the matter, quickly and effectively, and often resolve disputes at the negotiating table, without the need for costly litigation.

The U.S. government recognizes sexual harassment as a form of workplace discrimination that violates Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act.

Sexual comments and advances, requests for favors, and other verbal or physical conduct of a sexual nature constitute sexual harassment when this conduct explicitly or implicitly affects an individual's employment, unreasonably interferes with an individual's work performance, or creates an intimidating, hostile, or offensive work environment.*

Retaliation against an employee who complains of sexual harassment or discrimination is also prohibited by Title VII. Retaliation might include demotion, transfer, negative evaluation, or firing. Sexual harassment or other kinds of harassment in the workplace can sometimes be difficult to recognize. To an employee who feels that she or he is being sexually harassed, the signs are everywhere. There are many types of sexual harassment, but some of the most common are:

Quid Pro Quo Harassment - The harasser insists on sexual favors in exchange for keeping a job, getting a promotion, or other employment benefits or opportunities.

Hostile Environment Harassment - A work environment with obscenities, sexual joking, pornography, sexually degrading posters, and other offensive items can be a form of illegal harassment.

If you are involved in a sexual harassment dispute, contact us right away.

Sexual Harassment has negative effects for both victims and businesses

The effects of sexual harassment on an employee can range from merely annoying to extremely traumatic. Some victims suffer damage to their reputation, depression, decreased self-esteem, post-traumatic stress, decreased work performance, and stress in their relationships. The retaliation that sometimes follows a complaint about sexual harassment can result in the loss of the victim's job and other work or professional opportunities. If you have been subjected to sexual harassment, we can help you recover compensation for your financial losses and emotional distress.

A sexual harassment claim has negative effects on companies and other organizations as well, such as: decreased employee productivity, damage to the company's reputation and image, and team conflict and low morale. If the matter ends up in court, the company bears the burden of the costs of litigation. The best thing that employers can do to is simply not to tolerate sexual harassment in the workplace. Our attorneys can assist large or small companies prevent harassment by drafting clear and effective anti-harassment policies, helping to establish an effective complaint or grievance process, and handling sexual harassment claim litigation.

Our focus has always been on employment law

We are one of a small number of law firms that continues to practice almost exclusively in the area of employment law. With a combined forty years of employment law experience representing individuals and businesses, between attorneys Donald Sapir and William Frumkin, we are employment lawyers well known to the employment law community in the tri-state region of New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut. Our experience has helped us shape sexual harassment and employment case law, and we are recognized as one of the leading employment law firms in the region.

If you are involved in a sexual harassment issue, whether you are an employer or an employee, we can help. Contact our offices in White Plains, New York, to learn more about our experience and what we can do to help you resolve the matter.

*Definition taken from The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, and can be found in its complete form at www.eeoc.gov/types/sexual_harassment.html.