Sexual Harassment is defined as unwelcome sexual advances, requests for sexual favors, and other verbal or physical conduct of a sexual nature when: –

• Submission to such conduct is made either explicitly or implicitly a term or condition of an individual’s employment.
• Submission to or rejection of such conduct by an individual is used as the basis for employment decisions affecting such individual; or
• Such conduct has the purpose or effect of unreasonably interfering with an individual’s work performance or creating an intimidating, hostile or offensive working environment.

The following acts constitute the sexual harassment:
Behaviors that may constitute sexual harassment include but are not limited to:

• Generalized gender-based remarks and comments.
• Unwanted physical contact such as intentional touching, grabbing, pinching, brushing against another’s body or impeding or blocking movement.
• Verbal or written sexually suggestive or obscene comments, jokes or propositions including letters, notes, e-mail, invitations, gestures or inappropriate comments about a person’s clothing.
• Visual contact, such as leering or staring at another’s body, gesturing, displaying sexually suggestive objects, cartoons, posters, magazines or pictures of scantily clad individuals.
• Explicit or implicit suggestions of sex by a supervisor or manager in return for a favorable
• Suggesting or implying that failure to accept a request for a date or sex would result in an adverse employment consequences with respect to any employment practice such as performance evaluation or promotional opportunity.
• Continuing to engage in certain behaviors of a sexual nature employment action such as hiring, compensation, promotion, or retention.