Sexual harassment is a form of sex discrimination that violates unwelcome sexual advances, requests for sexual favors, and other verbal or physical conduct of a sexual nature constitutes sexual harassment when submission to or rejection of this conduct explicitly or implicitly affects an individual's employment, unreasonably interferes with an individual's work performance or creates an intimidating, hostile or offensive work environment. Sexual Harassment can take many forms, including a request for sexual favors; unwelcome sexual advances towards others, verbal, physical, or foreseeable conduct of a sexual nature towards people. This illegal conduct could occur in houses, or public places, hotels, restaurants, and can most often occur in the workplace.Sexual harassment can occur in a variety of circumstances. The victim as well as the harasser may be a woman or a man. The victim does not have to be of the opposite sex to fall under a Sexual Harasment charge. The harasser can be the victim's supervisor, an agent of the employer, a supervisor in another area, a co-worker, or a non-employee. The victim does not have to be the person harassed but could be anyone affected by the offensive conduct. Sexual harassment could occur without injury to the victim. The harasser's conduct must be or feel unwelcome to the victim.Some typical examples of signs of Sexual harassment are when a person, whether it being a man or woman communicates unwelcome sexual jokes. These jokes are then passed to somebody who feels uncomfortable when confronted by these jokes, or when someone makes suggestive remarks or comments to another that are in a sexual nature. Physical touching or displaying offensive material to another is also a type of sexual harassment. Constant brushing against another person’s body would fall into the category of Sexual Harassment. In the dating scene, if someone refuses a date, the other person may repeatedly request for a date...
