Legal Question in Employment Law in Illinois

Re: immoral and unethical words and actions by employees

Both federal and Illinois State law prohibit certain types of discrimination in employment, baserd, for example, on race, religion, gender. The latter is known as sex discrimination and it can occur where sexual harassment is present. One form of sexual harassment occurs in the context of a "hostile work environment," and such an environment can occur where, say, an employer permits pornographic posters to be hung in the work place or tolerates sexual groping. Excessive dirty joke telling can also constitute a hostile work environment in the right context.

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