Sexual Harassment Situation: Pranks at Work
March 8th, 2012
Pranks can be fun and silly but when pranks damage a person’s reputation or cause serious embarrassment or humiliation, they should not be taken lightly.
Pranks at work can become a serious issue when they are related to sexual harassment.
California law defines sexual harassment as “unwelcome sexual advances, requests for sexual favors and other verbal or physical conduct of a sexual nature.”
For instance, say you have been working at a small bakery for almost a year. Before you started working at the bakery, you took whatever jobs you could in the meantime to help pay for student loans. Some of those jobs included adult work such as nude posing and the occasional night time work at a strip club. You were making ends meet and now you’re happy to leave that part of your life behind. However one day you come to work and you are mortified to find hundreds of old pictures of yourself barely clothed posted all around the bakery. One of your co-workers found out about your past life on the internet and decided to play a “prank” on you.
This is not a simple “prank,” this is sexual harassment.
If you have ever faced a similar situation, you should seek consultation by contacting a sexual harassment attorney in Riverside or a sexual harassment attorney in San Bernardino.
Also, if you were wrongfully terminated for your inability to complete essential job tasks due to your co-workers’ inappropriate behavior, contact wrongful termination lawyers in Riverside for a consultation.