Sexual Harassment Sexual harassment is defined as any unwelcome, unwarranted, unsolicited or offensive sexual conduct that is directed at a person or persons and which demeans and undermines the inherent self-worth and dignity of that person or persons or denies individual human rights as guaranteed by the Saskatchewan or Canadian Human Rights Codes. Sexual harassment may involve one incident or a series of incidents that consist of verbal, emotional mental or physical conduct, or any combination thereof that causes the above. Sexual harassment is further defined as any conduct that coerces, pressures, manipulates, or threatens persons, or curtails a person from participating in the life of the church, fulfilling the duties of their position in the church workplace, freely expressing their ideas, practicing in their chosen church vocation, or freely advancing in their church employment. Sexual harassment will be considered to have taken place if a reasonable person ought to have known that the behavior was unwelcome, unwarranted, unsolicited or offensive. Sexual harassment may consist of a single incident or several incidents over a period of time.
Sexual harassment is unacceptable conduct.
Sexual harassment does not apply in a relationship of mutual consent or in the expression of affection between friends as long as one's behavior is not imposed on another. However, it is stressed that where one person holds power over another, either in fact or perceived, a relationship of mutual consent may be impossible to achieve. Sexual harassment may involve two or more persons of the opposite or of the same sex, male or female. Unwelcome jokes with sexual overtones. Subtle innuendo or open taunting regarding perfections or imperfections about a person's body.