Sexual Harassment Lawyers in Virginia Beach – Hostile Work Environment

Written by our sexual harassment lawyers in Virginia Beach

Sexual harassment in the workplace can take on a hostile form if it is severe and pervasive enough to alter the victim’s employment conditions and create an abusive work environment.

This occurs when sexual conduct unreasonably interferes with an individual’s work performance or creates an intimidating, hostile, or offensive work environment.

And, it is not necessary that the sexual conduct be directed to the person making the complaint.

For more than a decade, our sexual harassment lawyers in Virginia Beach have helped employees working in a hostile environment due to sexual harassment in Hampton Roads, including Norfolk, Chesapeake, and Portsmouth.

Call us if any of this is happening in your workplace
Unwelcome, intentional touching of an employee’s intimate body areas is sufficiently offensive to be hostile environment sexual harassment.

More so than verbal remarks, a single unwelcome touching can seriously poison the victim’s work environment.  According to our sexual harassment lawyers in Virginia Beach, pornographic magazines and pictures, vulgar comments about men or women, pinups, sexually oriented calendars, or lewd jokes can create a hostile work environment that amounts to sexual harassment.

Sexual harassment is just one type of harassment based on sex.   Acts of aggression, intimidation, hostility, rudeness, name calling, or other types of abusive conduct not involving sexual activity or language, can give rise to Title VII liability when directed at employees because of their sex.

If you like where you work and NEED that job for your family, DO NOT let bad bosses and sexual harassment drive you from it. We can help!  Please call us immediately at (757) 432-2500 or use our online form below.

Sexual harassment lawyers in Virginia Beach serving Chesapeake, Norfolk, Portsmouth, and all of Hampton Roads.