The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission wrote its regulations on harassment in the 1980s, and America received its first major media exposure to sexual harassment in the 1991 Clarence Thomas Supreme Court hearings. Since then, harassment protections have extended to other protected categories, such as race, religion, national origin and sexual orientation. State and local governments also have added additional protections.

This serious topic finally has come to a full boil. Wilford Stone, a Cedar Rapids attorney, writes for the Gazette and asks — is your business prepared to deal with sexual harassment?

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