Phoenix Lawyer: Sexual Harassment Cases
Harassment on the job may be considered to constitute a hostile work environment contrary to existing employment laws.
Contact a knowledgeable Arizona employment law attorney to schedule a consultation regarding your legal recourse in the face of a hostile work environment. We zealously represent employees of both sexes who have experienced harassment or discrimination. Severe and pervasive sexual harassment can become detrimental to career interests, dignity, and the health and well-being of the worker.
Report Sexual Harassment
Our attorneys are prepared to assist clients in fulfilling requirements of a sexual harassment complaint before the EEOC (Equal Employment and Opportunity Commission) within the appropriate statute of limitations. Our lawyers represent employees when actions such as the following are committed or tolerated by supervisors or coworkers:
- Making offensive comments related to another employee's gender, race, color, national origin or religion
- Hanging offensive signs in cubicles or workrooms depicting pornography or containing obscenities
- Telling off-color jokes with offensive sexual content
- "Quid pro quo" sexual harassment involving solicited sexual contact in exchange for favors such as promotions
- Ignoring or not listening to employees in an obnoxious manner on the basis of the employees' race, color, national origin or religion
- Bullying as retaliation for rejection of sexual advances
- Stalking
- Groping
- Discrimination against female employees on the basis of pregnancy, or on the imagined likelihood of pregnancy occurring
Do You Have a Case?
Talk to one of our experienced lawyers to learn more about whether you may have a viable sexual harassment case. If you have been subjected to derogatory treatment on the job on the basis of membership in any protected class (i.e., on the basis of age, race, sex or disability), you may also have a claim for discrimination. Contact us to discuss your workplace harassment case with a thoughtful, knowledgeable and attentive employment lawyer.
We serve employees throughout the Phoenix and Mesa area, as well as in communities including Tucson, Flagstaff, Yuma, Prescott and Kingman. We have Spanish-speaking personnel in our law offices. Se habla español.
