Chapter 9.24 DISCRIMINATION GENERALLY
Section 9.24.050 Sexual harassment.
9.24.050 Sexual harassment.
Harassment on the basis of sex shall be considered an unlawful
employment practice.
Unwelcome sexual advances, requests for sexual favors, and other verbal or physical conduct of
sexual nature constitute sexual harassment when:
A. Submission to such conduct is made
either explicitly or implicitly a term or condition of an
individual's employment; or
B. Submission to or rejection of such
conduct by an individual is used as the basis for
employment decisions affecting such individual; or
C. 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
D. In determining whether alleged conduct
constitutes sexual harassment, the commission will
look at the record as a whole and at the totality of the circumstances, such as the nature of the
sexual advances and the context in which the alleged incidents occurred.
The determination of the legality of a particular action will
be made from the facts on a case-by-case basis. (Ord. 92-45 (part), 1992; prior code § 12-5)