Can It Be Considered Sexual Harassment If The Man Doesn't Work With You?
Q: Can it be considered sexual harassment if the man doesn't work with you?
There is a man who is living on our company property who has done some suggestive things, but he isn't actually employed by my company. Can what he's doing fall under the guidelines of sexual harassment?
A: This is a good question and i am sure you will get alot of interesting answers. Your company has a duty to provide you a safe and harassment free work place. The fact that this person is being allowed by them to harass you in this manner means they have not completed that duty. As a relationship exist between the individual and your company that is that of a renter and owner does not remove the duty of the employer to provide you a harassment free work place. File a complain with the company just like you would on any employee. Weather he is considered a employee or not. A relationship exist in which the company has a duty to attempt to correct the problem with the renter. You can file for a restraining order to make him stay off the company property period. If the company does not take acton to prevent the problem you can file a suit for them creating a hostile work place this they can't deny. And if they fellow in question is trading work for rent he is a employee. File the complant for harassment first then set back a bit. They would perfer to get him out of the building then to go to court. Good look