Practice Areas

Sexual Harassment / Retaliation

Sexual Harassment ◦ Wrongful Discharge ◦ Retaliatory Discharge

Sexual Harassment and Retaliatory Discharge are Still Too Common

Despite decades of public awareness of the problems of workplace sexual harassment and retaliatory discharge, these problems persist in too many places of employment.

Have you been sexually harassed at work? Were you fired or threatened with retaliation after reporting or complaining of sexual harassment? Are you an employer looking for help combating sexual harassment at your business? For answers to your questions about sexual harassment, wrongful discharge, or retaliatory discharge, contact the Austin, Texas sexual harassment attorneys at the law offices of Ross Law P.C.

What Constitutes Sexual Harassment?

According to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), sexual harassment on the job can be defined as

"unwelcome sexual advances, requests for sexual favors, and other verbal or physical conduct of a sexual nature constitutes sexual harassment when submission to or rejection of this conduct explicitly or implicitly affects an individual's employment, unreasonably interferes with an individual's work performance or creates an intimidating, hostile or offensive work environment"

Retaliatory Discharge

Our experienced sexual harassment lawyers know that often it is easier to prove retaliatory discharge than it is to prove the existence of on-the-job sexual harassment. Retaliatory discharge occurs when an employee complains of sexual harassment and is subsequently laid off or fired. While employers generally have the legal right to fire their employees for any reason, or no reason at all, it is illegal for an employer to fire an employee because he or she has claimed to be the target of sexual harassment.

The sexual harassment attorneys at Ross Law P.C., stand beside employees who have suffered damaging emotional, vocational, and financial losses because of sexual harassment or retaliatory discharge.

Employment law cases are often complex and involve a great deal of discovery and legal maneuvering. Our Texas employment lawyers are often called upon to render opinions and counsel before a conflict reaches the point of a lawsuit. Contact our sexual harassment and employment law attorneys and let us explain how we can help prevent employment law problems. We are prepared to enable employees facing sexual harassment on the job or illegal retaliatory discharge to face employers on an even playing field. Likewise, our counsel may enable an employer to nip a lawsuit in the bud before it takes place.

Employees and employers alike are encouraged to contact the experienced employment law attorneys at Ross Law P.C., to schedule a consultation.

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Ross Law P.C., is an Austin, Texas, law firm serving central Texas, south Texas, the Rio Grand Valley, and the DFW Metroplex, including the cities of Beaumont, Houston, San Antonio, Brownsville, McAllen, Dallas, Ft. Worth, and Corpus Christi.