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sexual harassment

sexual harassment : employment discrimination consisting of unwelcome verbal or physical conduct directed at an employee because of his or her sex ;also : the tort of engaging in such discrimination see also hostile environment sexual harassment, quid pro quo sexual harassment NOTE: Sexual harassment has been found by federal courts to violate the protection in the Civil Rights Act of 1964 against discrimination in employment. There are also state statutes under which sexual harassment actions may be brought. In order to recover against an employer under a sexual harassment suit, the plaintiff has to show that the harassment affected the employment (as by being severe or pervasive) and that the employer is liable under respondeat superior because of actual or constructive knowledge of the harassment. Strict liability is often imposed for harassment of an employee by a supervisor or for quid pro quo sexual harassment. ...

Sexual harassment

Sexual harassment, refers to a type of employment discrimination consisting in verbal or physical abuse of a sexual nature, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1379.Sexual harassment is a form of sex discrimination projected through unwelcome sexual advances, request for sexual favours and other verbal or physical conduct with sexual overtones, whether directly or by implication, particularly when submission to or rejection of such a conduct by the female employee was capable of being used for effecting the employment of the female employee and unreasonably interfering with her work performance and had the effect of creating an intimidating or hostile working environment for her, Apparel Export Promotion Council v. A. K. Chopra, AIR 1999 SC 625 (633): (1999) 1 SCC 759....

Sexual

Of or pertaining to sex or the sexes distinguishing sex peculiar to the distinction and office of male or female relating to the distinctive genital organs of the sexes proceeding from or based upon sex as sexual characteristics sexual intercourse connection or commerce sexual desire sexual diseases sexual generation...

quid pro quo sexual harassment

quid pro quo sexual harassment : sexual harassment in which the satisfaction of sexual demands is made the condition of job benefits or continued employment or is used as the basis for employment decisions regarding the individual compare hostile environment sexual harassment ...

sexual abuse

sexual abuse 1 a : the infliction of sexual contact upon a person by forcible compulsion b : the engaging in sexual contact with a person who is below a specified age or who is incapable of giving consent because of age or mental or physical incapacity 2 : the crime of engaging in or inflicting sexual abuse ...

hostile environment sexual harassment

hostile environment sexual harassment : sexual harassment that has the effect of unreasonably interfering with a victim's work performance or creating an intimidating, hostile, or offensive working environment that affects the victim's psychological well-being called also hostile environment harassment compare quid pro quo sexual harassment ...

Sexual intercourse

Sexual intercourse, the dictionary meaning of the words 'sexual intercourse' is heterosexual inter-course involving penetration of the vagina by the penis, Sakshi v. Union of India, (2004) 5 SCC 518; see also Koppula Venkata Rao v. State of Uttar Pradesh, (2004) 3 SCC 602. (Indian Penal Code, s. 375)...

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