US Virgin Islands
Equal Employment Opportunity

Sexual harassment is illegal and is prohibited by the U.S. Virgin Islands Civil Rights law. Sexual harassment is defined in 10 V.I.C. § 64a as any unwelcome sexual advances or requests for sexual favors or any other verbal or physical conduct of a sexual nature when:

• Submission to that conduct or those advances or requests is made either explicitly or implicitly a term or condition of an individual’s employment; or

• Submission to or rejection of the conduct or advances or requests by an individual is used as the basis for employment decisions affecting the individual; or

• The conduct, advances, or requests have the purpose or effect of unreasonably interfering with an individual’s work performance or creating an intimidating, hostile, or offensive working environment.

Sexual harassment can occur in a variety of circumstances, including but not limited to the following:

• The victim and the harasser may be a woman or a man.

• The victim does not have to be of the opposite sex.

• The harasser can be the victim’s supervisor, an agent of the employer, a supervisor in another area, a co-worker, or a non-employee.

• The victim does not have to be the person harassed but could be anyone affected by the offensive conduct.

• Unlawful sexual harassment may occur without economic injury to or discharge of the victim.

• The harasser’s conduct must be unwelcome.

It is helpful for the target to inform the harasser directly that the conduct is unwelcome and must STOP. The targe should use any employer complaint mechanism or grievance system available.