What constitutes sexual harassment under Title VII?
MultiRegion, United States of America
The following excerpt is from Holtz v. Rockefeller & Co., 258 F.3d 62 (2nd Cir. 2000):
2. Sexual Harassment under Title VII. An employer violates Title VII's prohibition of discrimination on the basis of sex when it allows the working environment to become "permeated with discriminatory intimidation, ridicule, and insult that is sufficiently severe or pervasive to alter the conditions of the victim's employment and create an abusive working environment." Harris v. Forklift Sys., Inc., 510 U.S. 17, 21
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