Sexual Harassment.
I have had several conversations with my supervisor concerning new restrictions he has placed on my access to our accounting system. Keep in mind I have been with this company 4 years and have seen bosses come and go but never has one restricted my access to a system I use everyday to perform my job. He has repleatedly not posted payments received in our banking account to the accounting system. As a result, I have called clients requesting payment that they say has already been paid. Making me appear to be incompitent. He talks to several of the ladies including myself very unprofessionally. He is rude and yelling at us. Each day I get into our accounting system and my access changes on a daily basis impeding my ablity to perform my job. I have talked to my practice leaders and to the CEO. I finally had submitt a formal harassment form to our CEO, Legal Services & Human Resources as stated in our employee handbook to get some resolution. My question is: Is it really harassment if it is not sexual in nature?
1 answer | asked Jun 16, 2003 5:32 PM [EST] | applies to Texas
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To be unlawful under federal or state anti-discrimination law, the harassment must be on the basis of the victim's race, color, national origin, religion, sex, age, or disability.
Sexual harassment need not be "sexual," but instead could be because of the victim's gender. For example, a male supervisor could think that women should not be in certain jobs and, when he is supervising women who hold those jobs, he could be treating them more harshly than he does the men in those jobs -- like constantly yelling at them, arguing with everything they do, disciplining them unfairly, nitpicking, etc. He does not have to, for example, be asking for sex or even telling filthy stories about sexual matters -- he just has to be abusing them because they are female. I hope that helps.
posted by Margaret A. Harris | Jun 16, 2003 8:09 PM [EST]
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