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With all the recent news out of Washington focused first on health care reform, then financial reform, you may be wondering what has happened to the Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA), which was proposed by Congress last year. The short answer is that while EFCA was certainly pushed aside by the health care and financial reform efforts, it is by no means dead.

As BP continues its efforts to cap the devastating oil spill in the gulf, government officials are directing their investigations to accountability and prevention. It is becoming glaringly obvious that holes in BPs workplace policies, culture, and ethics are serious culprits in our nation’s largest environmental disaster on record.

Though sexual harassment is one of the most common forms of workplace discrimination, the trends employers are seeing in harassment claims are anything but typical.

To stay ahead of the curve, employers need to keep themselves up-to-date on the four latest workplace trends impacting harassment claims: