Sexual harassment,”any unwanted action or activity of a sexual nature that explicitly or implicitly affects an individual’s employment, performance, or work environment. Sexual harassment is the single largest financial risk facing companies today, through compensation, absenteeism, low productivity and turnover. 1. Creates an intimidating, offensive, or hostile environment2. Unreasonably interferes with an individual’s work3. Adversely affects an employee’s employment opportunitiesThe hostile environment is most problematic. Employers’ can be held responsible for sexual harassment. However, how to determine whether something is offensive. It is wat makes employees feel uncomfortable. In sexual harassment cases, the court wants to know two things: did the organization know about, or should have known about the alleged behaviour, and what did managers do to stop it. The supreme court states that harassment is defined by ugly behaviour
not by what happens to the worker subsequently.”