Good touch, bad touch – Employers must be sensitive to same-sex harassment

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Abstract: All claims of sexual harassment — including those involving same-sex employees — need to be taken seriously by employers. That’s the conclusion this article draws. It summarizes a Sixth Circuit case in which an employee alleged that his employer, in violation of Title VII, had failed to take prompt and corrective action when he was sexually harassed by a male co-worker. Smith v. Rock-Tenn Services, Inc., No. 15-5534, Feb. 10, 2016 (6th Cir.)