If you're a woman in the workplace, chances are you've been harassed, and most likely sexually. This is all too common across the US and many activists are finding the way HR deals with it quite disturbing. It's not that these cases don't get reported, it's the fact that when they do, companies often don't respond in accordance to law or even company code. When they do take action against harassers, they usually don't follow through and the assaulter is let off the hook. If you're working high on the company ladder or you do exceptionally well in your work, then chances are if you decide to assault a coworker and they end up reporting it, you won't get punished. Why? Because you're an asset to the company, and the last thing they want to do is lose you. HR may have come a long way, but activists and women all around can agree that it still has a ways to go.
This article was written on April 10th by Julia Horowitz at CNN. It talks about HR and it's recent responses to sexual assault. Actually, how hard HR may work to protect it's company and even it's assaulters. This problem correlates with the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and how it was meant to protect everyone from discrimination, but how a lack of enforcement can lead many law officers and officials to turn a blind eye when this law is broken.
http://money.cnn.com/2017/04/10/pf/jobs/workplace-sexual-harassment/index.html
I think that women who are sexually harassed in the work place should get justice,and the HR should stop protecting the harasser. No employer should justify such act form any employee, no matter how important they might be to the company.
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