Legal Question in Employment Law in Georgia

A single incident of making fun of how someone walks would almost certainly fail to constitute actionable "sexual harassment" under the law. That being said, at-will employment means that an employer can terminate an employee for any reason or no reason at all, so long as no law is violated. The employer does not need to justify its actions, utilize progressive discipline, or allow the employee an opportunity to present his/her side of the story. In other words, if the employer believes an employee's conduct is inappropriate or that it violates company policy, it can terminate that employee regardless of whether the conduct rises to the level of actionable sexual harassment.

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