A. Salt Lake City Corporation will not tolerate any form of harassment, joking remarks, or other abusive conduct (including verbal, non-verbal, or physical conduct), that demeans or shows hostility toward an individual based on a protected class.
B. Sexual harassment is a form of harassment with distinguishing characteristics. It consists of unwelcome sexual advances, requests for sexual favors, or other verbal or physical conduct of a sexual nature 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 is used as a basis for employment decisions affecting an individual; or
3. Such conduct unreasonably interferes with an individual’s job performance or creates an intimidating, hostile, or offensive working environment, even if it leads to no tangible or economic job consequences.
C. Conduct constituting sexual harassment under this policy may include, but is not limited to:
1. Intentional physical conduct that is sexual in nature, such as touching, staring, blocking, pinching, kissing, patting, grabbing, or brushing against another’s body;
2. Physical assaults of a sexual nature, such as: rape, sexual battery, molestation, or attempt to commit these assaults.
3. Making unwanted sexual advances, propositions, or other sexual comments; using obscene and insulting terms related to gender; making uncalled for, unwelcome or persistent requests for social contacts; making comments about a person’s body, sexuality or sexual experience, or other sexually oriented or sexually demeaning or explicit jokes or comments; giving preferential treatment or promises of preferential treatment in exchange for submission to sexual behaviors; or intentionally or unintentionally making performance of an employee’s job more difficult because of an employee’s gender.
4. Displaying or publicizing in the work place, or sending via email or text, sexually oriented displays or publications, such as sexually oriented pictures, posters, cartoons, calendars, graffiti, sexually oriented objects, jokes, stories, or other material;
D. Harassment in violation of this policy may occur even though the conduct occurs outside of the workplace.