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$760,000: The High Price of an Office Romance Gone Bad


by Ryan E. Griffitts
Thompson, Coe, Cousins & Irons, L.L.P. View Firm Credentials
Dallas Office

June 17, 2004

Previously published on September 10, 2002

It goes without saying that sexual harassment is disruptive to the workplace and costly to employers. Sexual harassment can be difficult enough to deal with in the typical scenario, where one employee makes sexual advances or repeated sexual remarks to another employee who is offended by such conduct. Employers seem to have an even more difficult time contending with cases of sexual harassment that result from an office romance gone bad. As one court recently found, such situations can be just as costly to employers as the case of a supervisor demanding sexual favors from an unwilling subordinate.


 

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