What conduct is unwelcome?
The conduct is unwelcome if you did not initiate it, encourage it, provoke it or request it, and you feel that you are being ridiculed or that the conduct is demeaning, insulting, offensive, undesirable, hostile, intimidating or threatening. What are some behaviors that violate the City’s sexual harassment policy? Telling sexual jokes or making sexual innuendos which cause embarrassment and discomfort to an individual may violate the City’s sexual harassment policy. Also, repeatedly asking a co-worker for a date may be sexual harassment if this causes negative job consequences or an uncomfortable work environment. Asking for or pressuring a person into granting sexual favors in exchange for a job benefit, or threatening a person with negative employment decisions for rejecting sexual advances, violates the City’s sexual harassment policy. Using office equipment, interoffice mail, e-mail, voice-mail or bulletin boards to send or display sexually suggestive messages, pictures, cartoons,
