Assertion: sexual harassment's employer | /r/HasProperty | held liable
Facets:
value: for sexual harassment
type: CAUSE
value: vicariously
type: MANNER
value: often
type: TEMPORAL
value: in this case
type: OTHER
value: in the workplace
type: LOCATION
value: regardless of
type: OTHER
value: for hostile environment
type: CAUSE
value: for assault
type: PURPOSE
value: company parties
type: OTHER
value: for incidents
type: CAUSE
value: by their employees
type: OTHER
value: generally
type: DEGREE
value: in most cases
type: TEMPORAL
value: by contracts
type: CAUSE
value: by non-supervisory personnel
type: OTHER
value: by a supervisor
type: OTHER
value: for the supervisor's actions
type: CAUSE
Source sentences:
text: While the person who sexually harasses someone else is liable for their own behaviour, employers can also be held vicariously liable for acts of sexual harassment by their employees or agents.
text: Because the harasser is a representative of the employer, the employer often is held vicariously liable for the supervisor's actions.
text: An employer can be held liable for the creation of a hostile environment by a supervisor, by non-supervisory personnel, or by the acts of the employer's customers or independent contractors if the employer has knowledge of such harassment and fails to correct it.
text: In discrimination cases, by contracts, only the employer may be held liable because the harm that occurs stems from the employer.
text: Also, the employer and the offender can be held liable.
text: Employers are generally held liable if a supervisor is the harasser.
text: Co-workers, other supervisors and customers: Since these individuals are not the employer’s proxies and do not have direct authority over the victim, it is unlikely the employer will be held liable for harassment committed by them.
text: Since these individuals are not the employer’s proxies and do not have direct authority over the victim, it is unlikely the employer will be held liable for harassment committed by them.
text: An employer may be held liable for incidents that take place during business trips, company parties or other company-related functions.
text: Employers could be held liable for sexual harassment and assault that happens in the workplace.
text: Note: In most cases, an employer can’t be held liable unless it’s aware of the harassment.
text: An employer can be held liable for failing to prevent these workplace conditions, unless it can prove that it attempted to prevent the harassment and that the employee failed to take advantage of existing harassment counter-measures or tools provided by the employer.
text: Employers can be held vicariously liable for sexual harassment by their employees in the workplace.
text: (g) Other related practices: Where employment opportunities or benefits are granted because of an individual's submission to the employer's sexual advances or requests for sexual favors, the employer may be held liable for unlawful sex discrimination against other persons who were qualified for but denied that employment opportunity or benefit.
text: If an employer knows about, or should have reasonably known about, customer harassment and doesn’t do something to fix it, that employer can be held liable.
text: Employer is always held liable
text: Employer is held liable for harassment by owner/senior manager
text: Employer may be held vicariously liable for hostile environment and sexual harassment created in the workplace by nonemployees.
text: An employer who condones or tolerates the creation of such an environment should be held liable regardless of whether the environment was created by a co-employee or a nonemployee, since the employer ultimately controls the conditions of the work environment" (at 1073-1074).
text: In this case the employer was also held liable for the actions of the offending employee.