Events tagged with "title vii"

Historical Events tagged with "title vii"

Turns out history loves a label—battles, breakthroughs, and the occasional disaster, all neatly tagged for your browsing pleasure. Because sometimes you just need every weird invention in one place.

Supreme Court Rules on Same-Sex Harassment

March 4th, 1998 27 years ago

The Supreme Court ruled that federal laws prohibiting workplace sexual harassment apply to same-sex harassment. In Oncale v. Sundowner Offshore Services, Inc., Anthony Oncale alleged he was subjected to sexual harassment by male co-workers while working on an oil platform in the Gulf of Mexico, leading to a landmark decision affirming protections against harassment regardless of the gender of the individuals involved.