What is sexual harassment in the workplace?
Saskatchewan, Canada
The following excerpt is from X. v. Empire Investments Corp., 2014 CanLII 150064 (SK QB):
Sexual harassment in the workplace is broadly defined as unwelcome conduct of a sexual nature that detrimentally affects the work environment, endangers an individual's continued employment, negatively affects work performance, undermines personal dignity, or leads to adverse job-related consequences for the victims of the harassment: Janzen v. Platy Enterprises Ltd., 1989 CanLII 97 (SCC), [1989] 1 S.C.R. 1252, 59 D.L.R. (4th) 352 [ 10 C.H.R.R. D/6205]. Sexual harassment may be blatant and overt, involving groping, fondling and other forms of sexual assault, or it may be of a more insidious nature involving a campaign of sexual innuendo, propositioning, stalking, and the like.
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