Common use of Hostile Environment Sexual Harassment Clause in Contracts

Hostile Environment Sexual Harassment. It is a violation of this Agreement for any employee to engage in unwelcome sexual conduct which has the purpose or effect of interfering unreasonably with another employee’s work performance or of creating an intimidating, hostile or offensive working environment. Such conduct, if unwelcome, may include, but is not limited to: sexual bantering, off-color language or jokes, sexual flirtations, advances, propositions or touching; requests for sexual favors; verbal abuse of a sexual nature; verbal commentaries or gestures about an individual’s body; sexually-degrading words used to describe an individual; displays of sexually- suggestive objects or pictures; and using sexual or degrading gestures or other non- verbal communications. Under the law, it makes no difference if the victim of sexual harassment is of the same or opposite sex as the harasser. Engaging in such conduct through written communications or by originating, forwarding or accessing electronic communications via email or the Internet also is specifically prohibited.

Hostile Environment Sexual Harassment. It is a violation of this Agreement for any employee to engage in unwelcome sexual conduct which has the purpose or effect of interfering unreasonably with another employee’s work performance or of creating an intimidating, hostile or offensive working environment. Such conduct, if unwelcome, may include, but is not limited to: sexual bantering, off-color language or jokes, sexual flirtations, advances, propositions or touching; requests for sexual favors; verbal abuse of a sexual nature; verbal commentaries or gestures about an individual’s body; sexually-degrading words used to describe an individual; displays of sexually- sexually-suggestive objects or pictures; and using sexual or degrading gestures or other non- non-verbal communications. Under the law, it makes no difference if the victim of sexual harassment is of the same or opposite sex as the harasser. Engaging in such conduct through written communications or by originating, forwarding or accessing electronic communications via email or the Internet also is specifically prohibited.

Hostile Environment Sexual Harassment. It is a violation of this Agreement for any employee to engage in unwelcome sexual conduct which has the purpose or effect of interfering unreasonably with another employee’s work performance or of creating an intimidating, hostile or offensive working environment. Such conduct, if unwelcome, may include, but is not limited to: sexual bantering, off-color language or jokes, sexual flirtations, advances, propositions or touching; requests for sexual favors; verbal abuse of a sexual nature; verbal commentaries or gestures about an individual’s body; sexually-degrading words used to describe an individual; displays of sexually- suggestive objects or pictures; and using sexual or degrading gestures or other non- 11/147/173 verbal communications. Under the law, it makes no difference if the victim of sexual harassment is of the same or opposite sex as the harasser. Engaging in such conduct through written communications or by originating, forwarding or accessing electronic communications via email or the Internet also is specifically prohibited.