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Huntsville Sexual Harassment Attorneys
Protecting Workers from Sexual Harassment in Alabama
Sexual harassment is one of the most damaging forms of discrimination, causing significant physical and emotional trauma to victims and putting their careers in jeopardy. If you are a victim of sexual harassment in the workplace, Attorney Larry B. Sinor draws from over 28 years of experience in employment law to fight for your rights. He is skilled in cases involving sexual harassment, same-sex harassment, and retaliatory discharge.
The most important thing to remember as a victim of harassment is that you may be running out of time to file an effective complaint and lawsuit against the responsible party. If you are suffering or facing problems because of sexual harassment at work, speak to one of our Birmingham and Huntsville sexual harassment lawyers immediately.
Michel Allen & Sinor can help you resolve your sexual harassment case. Call (205) 265-1880 or contact us online.
What Is Sexual Harassment?
Sexual harassment occurs when an employer, co-employee, supervisor, or client sexually harasses an employee. This type of conduct comprises an illegal hostile work environment and can be the basis of a forced resignation or wrongful termination.
Sexual harassment victims not only suffer emotional pain, but this type of conduct often profoundly affects the victim's productivity and work assignments, forcing the victim to avoid negative interactions with the harasser.
Many victims of sexual harassment have been driven from their chosen professions due to the employer's toleration of the conduct and through no fault of their own. Reporting sexual harassment is difficult, as it could lead to retaliation by those in power at the organization.
Harassment can manifest in the form of:
- Physical abuse or assault: This can include unwanted touching, groping, or pinching
- Verbal abuse: This could be sexual or derogatory language or repeated sexual advances or implied threats
- Visual abuse: This occurs when offensive visual materials and gestures are used that are intended to demean and insult
- Quid pro quo harassment: This involves an employer promising benefits to an employee if they engage in sexual activity or punishment for refusing
- Hostile work environment: This involves unwanted verbal, visual, or physical conduct that may render the work environment hostile and intimidating
Employees Protected Under Anti-Sexual Harassment Statutes
Unwelcome sexual advances, requests for sexual favors, and other verbal or physical conduct of a sexual nature--explicitly or implicitly--in the job setting is unlawful if it unreasonably interferes with an individual's job performance or creates an intimidating, hostile, or offensive working environment. In the vast majority of cases, the perpetrator of sexual harassment toward an employee is not a stranger, but rather a manager, a supervisor, and/or a co-employee and may involve any of the following types of conduct:
- Unwanted sexual advances
- Requests for sexual favors
- Verbal comments, slurs, or jokes of a sexual nature
- Sexual innuendos or other sexually suggestive features
- Obscene phone calls, emails, tweets, or notes
- Pictures, cartoons, or other graphical material of a sexual or provocative nature
- Leering or ogling; staring in a sexually suggestive manner
- Sexually suggestive objects or offensive materials, displaying and/or distributing
- Physical touching, including touch in passing, brushing against, pinching, patting, grabbing, groping, or coercing sexual acts
- Being completely exposed or exposing oneself
- Showing, displaying, or exposing sexual body parts such as breasts, buttocks, or genitals
Sexual harassment can deny employees and job applicants equal employment opportunities. The harasser can be the victim's supervisor, an agent of the employer, a supervisor in another area, a co-worker, or a non-employee, such as a client or a customer.
Contact Our First-Rate Huntsville & Birmingham Sexual Harassment Lawyers, Today
If you are the victim of sexual harassment, our Alabama sexual harassment attorneys can identify the parties responsible for your employer's tolerance of the illegal conduct and prepare an effective claim to be filed with the appropriate federal or state agency. Our goal is to resolve the issues without litigation; however, we are prepared to file a sexual harassment lawsuit and pursue the responsible parties in court. Our attorneys in Huntsville aggressively protect the rights of sexual harassment victims in Birmingham, Florence, Decatur, Madison, and across Alabama.
Take the first step in your sexual harassment case. Call (205) 265-1880 to speak with a sexual harassment attorney near you.

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