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BLR’s Human Resources Training Presentations in Pennsylvania
Sexual Harassment: What Is and Isn’t Acceptable: Part I
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Goals
Consider federal laws that prohibit sexual harassment in the workplace
Recognize the specific forms of harassmentKnow who can commit sexual harassmentRecognize who can experience harassmentUnderstand under what conditions sexual
harassment can occurConsider Pennsylvania laws governing sexual
harassment
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What Is Sexual Harassment?
Title VII–Title VII prohibits discrimination in
employment based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin
–The courts have interpreted discrimination based on sex to include sexual harassment
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What Is Sexual Harassment? (cont.)
–Conduct of a sexual nature in the workplace
–Unwelcome sexual advances or requests for sexual favors, or verbal or physical conduct of a sexual nature constitutes sexual harassment
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Who Can Commit Sexual Harassment?
SupervisorsSubordinatesCo-workersClients/customers
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Who Can Commit Sexual Harassment? (cont.)
TeachersStudentsSame-sex
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Who Can Experience Sexual Harassment?
Direct targets of harassmentBystanders/witnesses to harassment
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How Can Sexual Harassment Occur?
Tangible Employment Action–Employee suffers a loss
(monetary, change inworkload or assignment)
–Focus on harm to victim–Occurs between a supervisor and employee
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How Can Sexual Harassment Occur? (cont.)
Hostile Work Environment–Severe or pervasive conduct (or both)–Unreasonable interference with job
performance–Offensive, intimidating, hostile work
environment–Can be created by anyone in the workplace
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Does a Hostile Work Environment Exist?
How frequent is the conduct? How severe?Is the conduct physically threatening or
humiliating?Does the conduct unreasonably interfere
with an individual’s work performance?
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Pennsylvania Law
Pennsylvania Human Relations Act Pennsylvania Human Relations
Commission Sexual harassment defined
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Three Primary Forms of Sexual Harassment
Physical harassment or abuse Verbal harassment or abuse Visual harassment or abuse
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When Is It Illegal?
Must be put up with to keep the job Employment decisions based on response Employee’s work negatively affected Hostile work environment created
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Who May File Complaints?
VictimsWitnessesCo-workers
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Summary
Sexual harassment is prohibited by Title VIISexual harassment is conduct of a sexual
nature in the workplaceSexual harassment is unwelcome advances or
requests for sexual favors, or verbal or physical conduct of a sexual nature
Sexual harassment can be committed by employees, customers, or clients
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Summary (cont.)
Any employee–as well as bystanders and witnesses–can be a target of harassment
Sexual harassment is characterized by tangible employment action or a hostile environment
Pennsylvania law prohibits sexual harassment
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Quiz
1. Sexual harassment in the workplace includes lewd remarks and sexual calendars. True or False
2. People of the same sex cannot commit sexual harassment. True or False
3. Besides employees who are direct targets, who are the other two groups who may be victims of sexual harassment?
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Quiz (cont.)
4. If a supervisor terminates an employee for refusing a sexual demand, it is an example of what kind of harassment?
5. A hostile work environment may be intimidating and include sexual jokes. True or False
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Quiz Answers
1. True.2. False. The key here is not sexuality, but that the
act is sexual in nature.3. Bystanders or witnesses to sexual harassment.4. It is an example of tangible employment action.5. True.