Washington
Equal Employment Opportunity

Physical conduct including but not limited to: sexual assault; grabbing, poking, pressing or intentionally brushing up against another person’s body; blocking someone’s movement or invading their space; touching someone’s breast, buttocks, or between their legs; or any other unwanted and intentional physical contact.

Visual conduct including but not limited to: leering; sexual gestures; displaying of sexually suggestive objects, pictures, cartoons, posters, screen-savers, or websites.

Verbal conduct including but not limited to: sexually derogatory comments, epithets, slurs and jokes; verbal abuse of a sexual nature; graphic verbal comments about an individual’s body; derogatory comments related to gender or stereotypical gender roles; subtle or obvious pressure for unwelcome sexual activities; sexually suggestive or obscene letters, notes, emails, or texts; conversations, stories, comments or jokes about a person’s sexuality or sexual experience; unwelcome questions about a person’s sexuality or gender identity or expression.

Asking a co-worker on a date multiple times if the request was unwelcome;

Verbal abuse or joking concerning a person’s gender characteristics such as vocal pitch, facial hair or the size or shape of a person’s body.

Offering an employment benefit (such as a raise, bonus, promotion, assistance with one’s career or better working conditions) in exchange for sexual favors, or threatening an employment detriment (such as termination, demotion, worse working conditions, or disciplinary action) when a person refuses to engage in sexual activity.

Sending sexually related, sexually derogatory, or sexually suggestive text messages, videos or messages via social media.

Physical or verbal abuse concerning an individual’s gender or the perception of the individual’s gender.

Making or threatening retaliatory action after receiving a negative response to sexual advances.

Hostile actions taken against an individual because of that individual’s sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or the status of being transgender, such as:

• Interfering with, destroying or damaging a person’s work, workstation, tools or equipment, or other interference with the individual’s ability to perform the job;

• Ignoring or ostracizing them;

• Yelling or name-calling.

Degrading comments in the form of sex stereotyping, which occurs when conduct or personality traits are considered inappropriate simply because they may not conform to other people’s ideas or perceptions about how persons of a specific sex should act or look.