Throughout this country, labor unions play a powerful and positive role in improving conditions in the workplace, protecting workers’ rights, and ensuring pay equality for their members. America’s unions represent millions of public employees, including nurses, firefighters, social workers, and more. In fact, nearly half of all union members in...
Recently, sexual harassment at work has made headlines. Although the MeToo Movement has focused primarily on the experiences of those in Hollywood, those who have the most to lose by sexual harassment at work are low-wage workers. There may be more than meets the eye with low-wage workers that have...
With the MeToo movement in full force, companies of all sizes are scrambling to update their sexual harassment and discrimination policies. Adding or improving employee training courses are also a new priority. A sexual harassment charge can fatally damage a company’s reputation. Harvard Business Review published the results of a...
With the evolution of the MeToo movement, it is evident that sexual harassment is at an all-time high in the workplace. It has been stated that power affects people in three aspects of psychological functioning, including how information is processed, how emotions are experienced, and how behavior is exemplified due...
Last October, when both the New York Times and The New Yorker published stories about Harvey Weinstein allegedly raping, assaulting, and sexually harassing several women, it propelled a nationwide backlash against workplace sexual harassment. Weinstein, an enormously successful film producer, was originally accused by more than a dozen women, but...
While there is no question that sexual harassment is pervasive in many workplaces, it is also underreported. Only one in four women experiencing sexual harassment on the job report the issue to their employer. The following are legal barriers that may prevent 75 percent of sexually harassed women from reporting...