Terms Used In Louisiana Revised Statutes 42:355

  • Settlement: Parties to a lawsuit resolve their difference without having a trial. Settlements often involve the payment of compensation by one party in satisfaction of the other party's claims.
  • Sexual harassment: means unwelcome sexual advances, requests for sexual favors, and other verbal, physical, or inappropriate conduct of a sexual nature which explicitly or implicitly affects an individual's employment or the holding of office, unreasonably interferes with an individual's work performance, or creates an intimidating, hostile, or offensive work environment, by a public servant of the state. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 42:352

            Any settlement executed in connection with a claim filed pursuant to this Chapter shall be a public record, with the exception of the name of the victim of the sexual harassment.

            Acts 2019, No. 413, §2, eff. June 20, 2019.