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FCMT SOP & EMPLOYEE HANDBOOK tolerate any conduct prohibited by this policy from anyone while at work or engaged in Company business. Sexual Harassment Defined Sexual harassment prohibited by this policy includes any unwanted sexual advances, requests for sexual favors or visual, verbal or physical conduct of a sexual nature when: Submission to such conduct is made a term or condition of employment; or submission to or rejection of such conduct is used as a basis for employment decisions affecting the individual; or such conduct has the purpose or effect of unreasonably interfering with an employee's work performance or creating an intimidating, hostile or offensive working environment. The three most common types of sexual harassment complaints are those in which: • An employee is fired or denied a job or an employment benefit because he/she refused to grant sexual favors or because he/she complained about harassment. Retaliation for complaining about harassment is illegal, even if it cannot be demonstrated that the harassment actually occurred. • An employee quits because he/she can no longer tolerate an offensive work environment, referred to as a "constructive discharge." If it is proven that a reasonable person in the victim's position, under like conditions, would resign to escape the harassment,the employer may be held responsible for the resignation as if the employee had been discharged. • An employee is exposed to an offensive work environment. Exposure to various kinds of behavior or to unwanted sexual advances alone may constitute harassment. The following is a partial list of conduct that would be considered sexual harassment: • Unwanted sexual advances. • Offering employment benefits in exchange for sexual favors. • Making or threatening retaliation after a negative response to sexual advances • Visual conduct such as leering, making sexual gestures, displaying offensive, derogatory, obscene or sexually suggestive objects, e-mails, computer graphics or images, unwelcome notes or letters, photographs, cards, drawings,gestures, pictures, cartoons, calendars or posters placed on walls, bulletin boards, or elsewhere on company premises or circulated in the workplace • Verbal conduct such as making or using derogatory sexual comments, epithets, slurs, sexually explicit jokes, negative stereotyping, comments about an employee's body or dress. • Written communications of a sexual nature distributed in hard copy or via a computer network. • Verbal sexual advances or propositions. • Verbal abuse of a sexual nature, graphic verbal commentary about an individual's body, sexually degrading words to describe an individual, suggestive or obscene letters, notes or invitations. • Physical conduct such as touching, assaults, impeding or blocking movements, unwelcome physical contact or staring at a person's body. • Retaliation for making harassment reports or threatening to report harassment. Page 3 of 15