(A) Sexual harassment is included among the prohibitions of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibits sex discrimination in employment, and is prohibited by the village.
(B) Sexual harassment consists of unwelcome sexual advances, requests for sexual favors, or other verbal or physical acts of a sexually based nature, where submission to such conduct is made a term or condition of employment, or an employment decision is based on an individual’s acceptance or rejection of such conduct, or such conduct unreasonably interferes with an individual’s work performance or created an intimidating, hostile, or offensive working environment. Sexual harassment involves not only members of the opposite sex but also of the same sex.
(C) Other forms of harassment in addition to sexual harassment are illegal (such as racial harassment) and/or are improper and will not be tolerated. Such harassment involves unwelcome language or actions involving race, religion, national origin, age, marital status, or disability.
(D) Sexual misconduct is a course of conduct that causes bodily injury or personal injury arising from that bodily injury, from sexual abuse, sexual molestation, sexual assault, sexual exploitation, and/or physical sexual abuse.
(E) Sexual harassment or misconduct, as well as other illegal or improper harassment of our employees by other employees or by persons who are not employed by but do business with the village, will not be tolerated.
(F) In addition, the village will not allow any retaliation against any employee who raises a concern about sexual harassment or misconduct as well as other improper or illegal harassment or participates in an investigation of any of the aforementioned and tells the truth of the best of his or her knowledge and belief.
(Ord. 1447, passed 10-20-2009; Ord. 1473, passed 12-7-2010; Ord. passed 1-1-2019)