For the first time in Irish law sexual harassment in the workplace is being outlawed.
Sexual harassment is a particularly distressing form of sex discrimination.
However, there's often some uncertainty about what exactly constitutes sexual harassment at work. Legally it is defined to include all unwelcome and sexually offensive, humiliating or intimidating actions involving physical intimacy, spoken words and gestures. It also includes the production, display or circulation of written material or pictures. Sexual harassment can be persistent, unwanted attention that is sex-based and continues after the person receiving it makes it clear that they want it to stop. Once-off incidents, if serious, may also constitute unlawful sexual harassment.