Pro Quo Sexual Harassment Workplace

In the workplace employees should always present themselves in a professional manner. Employees and employers should meet certain standards of behavior in respect to everyone involved in a workplace environment. In most organizations there is a code of conduct provided to employees. This lets them know what behavior is acceptable and what is not acceptable in the workplace. Some organizations and definitely professional ones, the employees must sign documents that they are agreeing to the terms of the organization and if they violate them they will face consequences. Employees in a workplace environment should create good working relationships at all times with others and reframe from any type of harassment or offensive gestures. If employees

The quid pro quo refers to any job benefits such as higher salaries, promotions or other conditions of employment subject to the provision of sexual favors or lack thereof. The hostile work environment refers to demeaning someone or sexual jokes, threats or pictures that creates an offensive work environment. When considered the guidelines of sexual harassment, courts should take in account what constitutes harassment. They should also take into account if this type of harassment was an act that was unwelcoming. Depending on the jurisdiction, courts sometimes have difficulty in deciding what is or what is not sexual harassment and these cases vary. In a hostile work environment case, the courts will take into consideration how often the alleged inappropriate behavior has taken place, the victims conduct, the context of the alleged harassment, harshness of behavior and the type of