Sexual harassment is defined as unwanted sexual advances or the creation of a sexually hostile work environment. This definition includes many forms of offensive behaviors and includes gender-based harassment of a person of the same sex as the harasser. The following is a partial list of examples that may encompass harassment but not limited too:
- Unwanted sexual advances, verbal or physical, expressed or implied.
- Offering employment benefits in exchange for sexual favors.
- Making or threatening reprisals after a negative response to sexual advances
- Other verbal conduct, including, but not limited to making of using derogatory comments, epithets, slurs or jokes based on the individual’s sex, making commentaries about an individuals body or appearance, using sexually degrading words to describe an individual, discussing or describing sexual experiences
- Other physical conduct, including, but not limited to, contact with another person’s body, such as back rubs, assault of another person’s body, impeding or blocking movements toward another person
- Visual conduct, including but not limited to leering, making sexual gestures, or displaying or forwarding sexually-offensive or obscene objects, pictures, cartoons, posters, email, internet websites, letters, notes, etc.
- Unwelcome sexual advances either verbally or physically, requests for sexual favors and other verbal, visual or physical conduct of a sexual nature, constitute sexual harassment.