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Sexual harassment
The Equal Opportunity Act 1995 (Vic) and the Sex Discrimination Act 1984 (Cth) deal not only with discrimination, but also with sexual harassment, which is:
- the making of an unwelcome sexual advance or
- an unwelcome request for sexual favours or
- the engaging in other unwelcome conduct of a sexual nature
in circumstances where a reasonable person, having regard to all the circumstances, would have anticipated the other person would be offended, humiliated or intimidated.
It is unlawful for a person (whether male or female) to sexually harass another person (whether male or female). Sexual harassment can occur at work or at work-related functions, even if they are held away from the workplace.
Sexual harassment includes a wide range of sexually offensive conduct such as inappropriate touching, requests for sexual favours, making comments or jokes of a sexually offensive nature, displaying sexually offensive posters, screensavers and so on.
For further information go to the Business Victoria - Equal Opportunity section, the Victorian Equal Opportunity and Human Rights Commission, or the Australian Human Rights Commission.
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