What is sexual harassment?
Sexual harrasment is:
Sexual harrasment can come from:
Sexual harrasment is ILLEGAL under both State and Federal law.
"Quid Pro Quo" or "Hostile Enviroment"
[*]Quid Pro Quo ("This for That"), This category of sexual harassment results directly in an employment action.
Examples of Quid Pro Quo sexual harassment would be a supervisor threating to fire an employee becuase he or she will not comply with sexual demands, or an employee not recieving a promotion because he or she rejected unwelcome conduct.
[*]Hostile enviroment, To prove that a hostile environment exists, these requirements must be met:
Following are examples of behaviors that courts have determined creat a hostile environment:]
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Sexual harrasment is:
- Unwanted sexual attention or sexual pressure of any kind in the work place.
- More then a personal violation - It can threaten a person's livelihood and make the work place less productive.
- A form of sex discrimantion.
Sexual harrasment can come from:
- Men or women against those of the opposite sex or those of the same sex.
- Peers as well as supervisors.
Sexual harrasment is ILLEGAL under both State and Federal law.
- Article 49B, Annotated Code of Maryland, prohibits discrimination in employment on the basis of sex with respect to compensation, term, conditions or privilages.
- Article 27, Sections 464 B and C Annotated Code of Maryland prohibits coercive sexual demands or contact against the will and without the consent of the other person.
- Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, as amended (1991), prohibits descrimination on the basis of sex in all terms, conditions or privileges of employment.
"Quid Pro Quo" or "Hostile Enviroment"
- Sexual harassment is unwelcome conduct of supervisors, co-workers, customers, vendors or anyone with whom the employee interacts with on the job. The U.S. Supreme Court has defined two categories of sexual harassment:
[*]Quid Pro Quo ("This for That"), This category of sexual harassment results directly in an employment action.
- The employee's submission to the unwelcome behavior is made explicitly or implicitly a term of condition of employment.
- The employee's submission to or rejection of the unwelcome conduct is used as a basis for employment decisions affecting the employee.
Examples of Quid Pro Quo sexual harassment would be a supervisor threating to fire an employee becuase he or she will not comply with sexual demands, or an employee not recieving a promotion because he or she rejected unwelcome conduct.
[*]Hostile enviroment, To prove that a hostile environment exists, these requirements must be met:
- The unwelcomed conduct has the purpose or effect of unreasonably interfering with work performance.
- The conduct creates and intimidating, hostile or offensive work invironment.
- The conduct must be "servere or pervasive" enough that a reasonable person would find it hostile or intimidating.
Following are examples of behaviors that courts have determined creat a hostile environment:]
- Discussing sexual activities.
- Telling off-color jokes.
- Unnecessay touching.
- Commenting on physical attributes.
- Using demeaning or inappropiate terms, such as "Babe"
- Sabotaging the victim;s work.
- Granting job favors to those who participate in consensual sexual activity.
- Using crude and offensive language.
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I think the Forums, Staff and the ZONE should be ran in a professional manner.
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