{"id":134,"date":"2020-09-24T17:25:50","date_gmt":"2020-09-24T17:25:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deptest.nj.gov\/eo\/?page_id=134"},"modified":"2024-06-10T16:49:07","modified_gmt":"2024-06-10T20:49:07","slug":"sexual-harassment","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/deptest.nj.gov\/eo\/complaint-filing-procedures\/sexual-harassment\/","title":{"rendered":"Sexual Harassment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=&#8221;&#8221;]<span class=\"SubHeading\"><strong>Definition<\/strong><br \/>\n<\/span>Sexual harassment is defined, as in the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission Guidelines, as unwelcome sexual advances, requests for sexual favors, and other verbal or physical conduct of a sexual nature when, for example:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Submission to such conduct is made either explicitly or implicitly a term or condition of an individual&#8217;s employment;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Submission to or rejection of such conduct by an individual is used as the basis for employment decisions affecting such individual; or<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Such conduct has the purpose or effect of unreasonably interfering with an individual&#8217;s work performance or creating an intimidating, hostile or offensive work environment.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"SubHeading\" align=\"left\"><strong>Examples of Inappropriate Behaviors<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Generalized gender-based remarks and comments;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Unwanted physical contact such as intentional touching, grabbing, pinching, brushing against another&#8217;s body, or impeding or blocking movement;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Verbal, written or electronic sexually suggestive or obscene comments, jokes or propositions including letters, notes, e-mails, text messages, invitations, gestures or inappropriate comments about a person\u2019s clothing;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Visual contact, such as leering or staring at another&#8217;s body; gesturing; displaying sexually suggestive objects, cartoons, posters, magazines or pictures of scantily-clad individuals; or displaying sexually suggestive material on a bulletin board, on a locker room wall, or on a screen saver;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Explicit or implicit suggestions of sex by a supervisor or manager in return for a favorable employment action such as hiring, compensation, promotion, or retention;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Suggesting or implying that failure to accept a request for a date or sex would result in an adverse employment consequence with respect to any employment practice such as performance evaluation or promotional opportunity; or<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Continuing to engage in certain behaviors of a sexual nature after an objection has been raised by the target of such inappropriate behavior.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Filing a Complaint<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If you believe you have experienced sexual harassment in the workplace, you are encouraged to file an EEO complaint by submitting a completed Discrimination Complaint Processing Form to <a href=\"mailto:equalopportunity@deptest.nj.gov\">equalopportunity@deptest.nj.gov<\/a>.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=&#8221;&#8221;]Definition Sexual harassment is defined, as in the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission Guidelines, as unwelcome sexual advances, requests for sexual favors, and other verbal or physical conduct of a sexual nature when, for example: Submission to such conduct is made either explicitly or implicitly a term or condition of an individual&#8217;s employment; Submission to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":114,"featured_media":0,"parent":110,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"fullwidth-title.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-134","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deptest.nj.gov\/eo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deptest.nj.gov\/eo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deptest.nj.gov\/eo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deptest.nj.gov\/eo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/114"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deptest.nj.gov\/eo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deptest.nj.gov\/eo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/134\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deptest.nj.gov\/eo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deptest.nj.gov\/eo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}