Sentences with phrase «conduct of a sexual nature»

Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver admonished and severely reprimanded Kellner after an Assembly ethics committee accused him of «unwanted and inappropriate conduct of a sexual nature» toward two female members of his staff.

Nassau's sexual harassment prevention policy, drafted in 2003, prohibits verbal or physical conduct of a sexual nature that affects an individual's employment or creates a hostile work environment.

For example, the proposals seek to limit the definition of sexual harassment to «conduct of a sexual nature,» excluding forms of gender - based harassment that often impact blue - collar women, such as stealing and ruining uniforms, according to employment attorney Kevin Mintzer.

The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), defines sexual harassment as unwelcome sexual advances, requests for sexual favors and other verbal or physical conduct of a sexual nature.

BU's policy defines sexual harassment as «unwelcome conduct of a sexual nature that has the effect of creating a hostile or stressful living, learning, or working environment.»

Schools bear responsibility for investigating «any unwelcome conduct of a sexual nature.»

Sexual harassment is defined as unwelcome sexual advances, requests for sexual favors, and all other verbal or physical conduct of a sexual nature that is made a condition of employment, the basis of an employment decision or that contributes to a hostile working environment.

The court found the Marriott had just cause to fire van Woerken — that by engaging in physical conduct of a sexual nature with a subordinate employee at a time when she was highly intoxicated, it amounted to an abuse of power.

The Equality Act of 2010 defines it as: «unwanted conduct of a sexual nature which has the purpose or effect of violating someone's dignity, or creating an intimidating, hostile, degrading, humiliating or offensive environment for them.»

Under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act, sexual harassment is a form of sex discrimination, and it includes unwelcome sexual advances, requests for sexual favors, and other verbal or physical conduct of a sexual nature in the workplace.

... I am of the view that sexual harassment in the workplace may be broadly defined as unwelcome conduct of a sexual nature that detrimentally affects the work environment or leads to adverse job - related consequences for the victims of the harassment.

Sexual harassment is unwelcome verbal or physical conduct of a sexual nature.

Not exact matches

The controversies over sex education are also transparently moral in nature: no one is arguing over the scientific facts about reproductive biology; they are arguing about competing moral visions of proper sexual conduct.

The Ontario Court of Appeal has stated that «when a manager or other senior employee engages in serious sexual harassment and denies that the misconduct occurred or otherwise refuses to recognize the unacceptable nature of his or her conduct, termination of the employment relationship may be the appropriate employer response».

The Canada Labour Code defines sexual harassment as «any conduct, comment, gesture, or contact of a sexual nature that is likely to cause offence or humiliation to any employee; or that might, on reasonable grounds, be perceived by that employee as placing a condition of a sexual nature on employment or on any opportunity for training or promotion.»

Looking at the two different aspects of sexual harassment as defined by the Canada Labour Code, more than half of working women in Canada (54 %) say they have experienced conduct, comments, gestures or contact of a sexual nature that caused them offence or humiliation, while three - in - ten (30 %) experienced conduct, comments, gestures or contact of a sexual nature that they perceived as placing a condition of a sexual nature on their employment or on any opportunity they might have for training or promotion.

There are a number of different charges in the Criminal Code that cover different types of specific conduct, but at its core a sexual assault, in law, is an assault (usually touching of some kind) that is sexual in nature and to which the complainant did not consent.

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