Sexual Harassment Policy

State of Colorado Employee Handbook

Appendix A

Sexual harassment is unlawful and unacceptable conduct, which undermines the integrity of the employment relationship. Sexual harassment will not be tolerated whether such harassment is directed toward fellow employees or the public.

Sexual harassment is defined as unwelcome and repeated sexual advances, requests for sexual favors and other verbal or physical conduct of a sexual nature when one or more of the following conditions are met:

(1) Submission to such conduct is made either explicitly or implicitly a term or condition of an individual's employment, or

(2) Submission to or rejection of such conduct by an individual is used as the basis of employment decisions affecting such individuals, or

(3) Such conduct has the purpose or effect of unreasonably interfering with an individual's work performance or creating an intimidating, hostile or offensive working environment, or

(4) Submission to or rejection of such conduct by an individual is used as the basis for delivery to or withholding of an agency's services from a client.

Sexual harassment may include actions such as:

• Sex-oriented verbal teasing or abuse
• Subtle pressure for sexual activity
• Physical contact such as patting, pinching or constant brushing against another's body
• Outright demand for sexual favors, accompanied by implied or overt promises of preferential treatment or threats concerning an individual's employment status.