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in the workplace and in any work-related setting outside the workplace, such as during business trips, business meetings, and business-related social events.
Policy
Harassment, in any form, will not be tolerated at the Company by any of its employees. This includes harassment based upon a person's race, color, religion, national origin, sex, age, mental or physical disability, creed, marital status, status with regard to public assistance or sexual orientation, or any other legally protected class. This policy applies to all employees, supervisors, managers and officers of the Company. If, after appropriate investigation, harassment is found to have occurred, the initiator will be subject to appropriate disciplinary action, depending on the circumstances, up to and including termination.
Harassment
A verbal or physical conduct that denigrates or shows hostility or aversion toward an individual because of his/her race, color, religion, national origin, sex, age, mental or physical disability, creed, marital status, status with regard to public assistance or sexual orientation, and that:
1. Has the purpose or effect of creating an intimidating, hostile or offensive work environment;
2. Has the purpose or effect of unreasonably interfering with an individual's work performance; or
3. Otherwise adversely affects an individual's employment opportunities.
Sexual Harassment
In accordance with the Equal-Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) Guidelines, issued November 10, 1980 as: "Harassment on the basis of sex is a violation of Section 703 of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act. Unwelcomesexualadvances,requestsforsexualfavors,andotherverbalorphysicalconductofsexual nature constitute sexual harassment when:
1. Submission to such conduct is made explicitly or implicitly a term or condition of an individual's employment;
2. Submission to or rejection of such conduct by an individual is used as a basis for employment decisions affecting such individual; or
3. Such conduct has the purpose or effect of unreasonably interfering with an individual's work performance or creating an intimidating, hostile, or offensive work environment.
Harassment can occur intentionally or unintentionally. Some examples of conduct that is prohibited by this policy are listed below. Please note that these are not the only examples:
1. Epithets, slurs, negative stereotyping, or threatening, intimidating or hostile acts that relate to race,
color, religion, national origin, sex, age, mental or physical disability, creed, marital status, status with
regard to public assistance or sexual orientation;
2. Written or graphic material that denigrates or shows hostility or aversion toward an individual or group
because of their race, color, religion, national origin, sex, age, mental or physical disability, creed, marital status, status with regard to public assistance or sexual orientation that is placed on walls, bulletin boards or elsewhere on the Company's premises or circulated throughout the workplace;
3. Unwanted sexual comments, innuendoes, flirtations, propositions, suggestions or invitations to social events;
4. Use of offensive words of a sexual nature describing body parts or the sexual act, telling "suggestive" jokes or stories, and conversations about sexual exploits, sexual preferences, and desires or suggestive or sexist remarks about a person's clothing or body;
5. Unwanted and unnecessary touching, brushing against, patting or pinching;
6. Displaying, in the work area, pictures, objects, cartoons, pornographic magazines, or representations of any action or subject which is sexual in nature, depicting nude, scantily clad or suggestively posed women or men and which can be perceived as offensive;
7. Sabotaging an employee's character, reputation, work effects, or property because of race, color, religion, gender, national origin, sex, age, mental or physical disability, creed, marital status, status with regard to public assistance or sexual orientation;
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