COF 075: What You Should Know About Harassment, Hostile Work Environment & Retaliation
La Toya L. Barrett is a partner at Dwyer & Barrett, LLC, an employment and civil rights litigation firm dedicated to protecting the rights of employees.
There’s been a lot of news and headlines about harassment, hostile work environment, and retaliation but aside from the cases and allegations dominating the news cycles what do these terms really mean?
Many of us know and use the terms but may not really understand what they mean or how they are legally applied.
In this episode of the podcast, La Toya sheds light on the basics of what you should know about harassment (including sexual harassment), hostile work environment and retaliation.
Resources Mentioned:
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC)
Implicit Association Test (IAT)
- The IAT is a measure to identify implicit bias. The Perception Institute defines implicit bias as follows:Thoughts and feelings are “implicit” if we are unaware of them or mistaken about their nature. We have a bias when, rather than being neutral, we have a preference for (or aversion to) a person or group of people. Thus, we use the term “implicit bias” to describe when we have attitudes towards people or associate stereotypes with them without our conscious knowledge.
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