Chapter 4

Employer Liability for Workplace Harassment

Chapter 4 explores when employers are liable for workplace sexual harassment, including employer liability for harassment by supervisors and co-workers.

On this page, you will find relevant cases, scholarship and current developments.


Laws
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Cases
In Vance v. Ball State University, 570 U.S. 421 (2013), the Supreme Court discusses the definition of a "supervisor" for ...
The First Circuit of the United States Court of Appeals discusses the affirmative defense available to employers when the harassment ...
At issue in this case are the two elements of the Faragher-Ellerth affirmative defense that Susquehanna County raised. The District ...
Scholarship
Nadine Taub, Keeping Women in Their Place: Stereotyping Per Se as a Form of Employment Discrimination (1980) "Employers' preconceived notions ...
Carly McCann, Donald Tomaskovic-Devey, M.V. Lee Badgett: Employer's Responses to Sexual Harassment (December 2018) "Sexual harassment is a pressing national ...
Chai R. Feldblum & Victoria A. Lipnic, U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, Select Task Force on the Study of Harassment ...
Joanna L. Grossman, The Culture of Compliance: The Final Triumph of Form Over Substance in Sexual Harassment Law "Why does ...
Current Developments
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