Quid pro quo harassment in the workplace is when a manager or someone of authority tries to offer or merely hint that they can give the employee professional advantages in exchange for sexual demands. For example, an employer can suggest sexual favors to an employee and ask them to submit to these favors if they want to keep their job or get promoted.
Employees or job applicants can both become victims of quid pro quo harassment. To prove that quid pro quo harassment took place at work, the victim should have evidence showing that they were a job applicant or employee at said company, the alleged harasser made verbal or physical unwanted sexual advances, employment decisions affecting the victim made as a direct result of this harassment, and they were harmed as a result of such harassment.