Week 8

The most common type of harassment is sexual harassment (Exhibit 20.2). Sexual harassment is defined as unwelcome conduct that is sexual in nature, or is a sexual advance, or request for sexual favors. The conduct can also be offensive remarks about a person’s sex. To rise to the level of harassment, the conduct must:

·         • Be unwelcome

·         • Be frequent, severe, or pervasive

·         • Interfere with or create a hostile or offensive work environment or result in an adverse employment decision

Sexual harassment has been illegal since 1965.

In the movie 9 to 5 the floor manager not only verbally sexually harassed his subordinates, he was also doing it physically. He referred to the women as his girls. Dolly Parton’s character was the main receiving the physical mistreatment. He grouped and felt her up. It was even to the point of him having others perceive her as a “jezebel” (Definition of Jezebel. 1 : the Phoenician wife of Ahab who according to the account in I and II Kings pressed the cult of Baal on the Israelite kingdom but was finally killed in accordance with Elijah's prophecy. 2 often not capitalized : an impudent, shameless, or morally unrestrained woman.). In today’s society sexual harassment is an automatic termination if one is found to be guilty. It’s also frowned upon if the person turned out to not be guilty. Forcing one’s self on another person is out of the question at any time. Verbal harassment is also in the same category. It may be harder to prove but a person who is willing to verbally and or physically harass someone is a sick individual. It’s not right and never should be tolerated. Unfortunately it happens every day. Some institutions have protection from it others do not. I believe it all starts with the management.