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Sexual Harassment Strict Liability

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

Employment Flash - December 2019

This edition of Employment Flash looks at recent NLRB activity, including its issuance of a decision suggesting two members would be willing to reconsider a precedent regarding surveillance of employees’ union activity. We...more

Pullman & Comley - Labor, Employment and...

Proposed Change to Sexual Harassment Law Would Impose Strict Liability on Employers

House Bill 7044, recently reported favorably out of the General Assembly’s Labor and Public Employees Committee, has not yet become law. In fact, earlier versions of the bill introduced in past years have failed to be...more

Davis Wright Tremaine LLP

WA Supreme Court: Public Accommodation Employers are Now Strictly Liable for Employees’ Discriminatory Conduct Toward...

Employers are liable for employees’ discriminatory conduct toward non-employees in places of public accommodation, such as restaurants, banks, hotels, medical providers' offices, and education facilities – even if the...more

Stoel Rives - World of Employment

Washington Supreme Court Announces Zero-Tolerance Approach to Sexual Harassment in Places of Public Accommodation

The Washington Law Against Discrimination (WLAD) prohibits “places of public accommodation” from discriminating against their customers on the basis of several protected characteristics, including, without limitation, sex,...more

Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein LLP

Fourth Circuit Rejects Sexual Harassment Claim by Employee Who Quit Days Into Her Investigation

Employers are not strictly liable for hostile environment sexual harassment by a victim’s co-workers. The employer may be held responsible under Title VII if it knew or should have known of the harassment and failed to take...more

Foley & Lardner LLP

Are You My Supervisor?

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Late last month, the Supreme Court considered whether and when a co-worker can be deemed a supervisor for purposes of evaluating if the employer is strictly liable for that person’s harassment of another employee....more

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