1. The Borough of Blossburg, of the County of Tioga, prohibits sexual harassment of employees in any form. Such conduct may result in disciplinary action up to and including dismissal.
2. Behavior is sexual harassment if:
A. Submission is implicitly or explicitly a term or condition of employment.
B. Submission or rejection is the basis of employment decision.
C. The conduct has the purpose or effect of unreasonably interfering with work performance or creating an intimidating or offensive work environment for the employee.
3. Specifically, no supervisor shall threaten or insinuate, either explicitly or implicitly, that an employee’s refusal to submit to sexual advances will adversely affect the employee’s employment, evaluations, wages, advancement, assigned duty or any other condition of employment or career development.
4. Other sexually harassing conduct in the workplace, whether committed by supervisors or nonsupervisory personnel, is also prohibited. This includes repeated offenses of sexual flirtations, advances, propositions, continued or repeated verbal abuse of a sexual nature, graphic verbal commentaries about an individual’s body, sexually degrading words used to describe an individual and the display in the workplace of sexually suggestive objects or pictures.
5. Violation of this sexual harassment policy by an employee shall result in disciplinary action and may include termination.
(Ord. 364, 3/13/1995)