Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), the ranking Democrat on the U.S.
Senate's Committee on Health, Education, Labor and
Pensions – the committee with oversight of federal
anti-discrimination law – has released recommendations for
legislative action to combat unlawful workplace harassment.
While most of these recommendations are unlikely to see legislative
action in the next Congress, they clearly lay out a blueprint of
where Senate Democrats (and House Democrats, who will hold the
majority in the lower chamber of Congress come January) are likely
to focus attention on issues relating to workplace harassment and
the continued #MeToo movement.
Murray's report, entitled "So I Tolerated
It: How Workplaces are Responding to Harassment and the Clear
Need for Federal Action" uses the #MeToo movement to set forth
a series of recommendations to amend federal employment law, and
more broadly to argue for legislative efforts to promote workplace
"justice." While some
