Eclectic Shades Magazine August Issue 2017 | Page 39

2. Sending lewd or pornographic emails, text messages, or voicemail to an employee

3. Unwelcome groping or touching of an employee

4. Unwelcome kissing of an employee

5. Sexual assault of an employee

6. Requesting sexual acts from an employee

7. Decribing sexual fantasies about an employee to that employee

In Texas, it is illegal for an employer to even touch an employee in a manner that would be considered offensive or provocative by a reasonable person.

We have obtained monetary damage recoveries against doctors, lawyers, business owners, and others who have molested their employees by kissing their employees, touching their employees’ buttocks or breasts, and even lewd and lascivious behavior, such as making repeated and unwelcomed lewd comments of a sexual nature.

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Attorney Kevin R. Madison