Sexual Harassment Legal Cases usually arise when an employer fails to provide education and clear policies on sexual harassment. Every employer should have policies, which define sexual harassment. In every job situation an employer should give education in one form or another to employees on the different types of sexual harassment and the harm that it causes others. In addition, an employer should have an organized procedure for which they will use in order to deal with complaints, and should make sure that each employee knows about these procedures. Within a place of employment, the employer should not only follow the sexual harassment policy, but the disciplinary policy as well. Meritor Savings Bank v. Vinson demonstrates the need for policies, which are also upheld by the higher level management. In this case the employee won the case although she had failed to complain to the employer before leaving. An employee is allowed to collect damages if they can show that the harassment was unwelcome and severe to the point of making the work environment abusive. In this case the company may have not been aware of the harassment, but did not take the proper precautions in order to prevent it.