Our policies
What we implement for our clients, we implement for ourselves
Fighting gender-based violence is rooted in our DNA. As such, we have a zero tolerance policy against any form of harassment, discrimination or violence.
Definitions
Sexual Harassment
Sexual harassment is unwelcome conduct of a sexual nature, including unwelcome sexual advances, requests for sexual favors, and other verbal, nonverbal, graphic, or physical conduct of a sexual nature, when submission to or rejection of such conduct is made either explicitly or implicitly a condition of an individual’s employment or is used as the basis for employment decisions.
Quid pro quo sexual harassment can occur whether a person resists and suffers the threatened harm, or the person submits and avoids the threatened harm. Both situations could constitute discrimination on the basis of sex.
A hostile environment can be created by persistent or pervasive conduct or by a single severe episode. The more severe the conduct, the less need there is to show a repetitive series of incidents to prove a hostile environment. Sexual violence, including rape, sexual assault, and domestic and dating violence, is a form of sexual harassment. In addition, the following conduct may violate this Policy:
Observing, photographing, videotaping, or making other visual or auditory records of sexual activity or nudity, where there is a reasonable expectation of privacy, without the knowledge and consent of all parties.
Sharing visual or auditory records of sexual activity or nudity without the knowledge and consent of all recorded parties and recipient(s).
Sexual advances, whether or not they involve physical touching
Commenting about or inappropriately touching an individual's body
Requests for sexual favors in exchange for actual or promised job benefits, such as favorable reviews, salary increases, promotions, increased benefits, or continued employment
Lewd or sexually suggestive comments, jokes, innuendoes, or gestures
Stalking
Gender-Based Harassment
Gender-based harassment is verbal, nonverbal, graphic, or physical aggression, intimidation, or hostile conduct based on sex, sex-stereotyping, sexual orientation or gender identity, but not involving conduct of a sexual nature, when such conduct is sufficiently severe, persistent, or pervasive that it interferes with or limits a person’s ability to complete their tasks. For example, persistent disparagement of a person based on a perceived lack of stereotypical masculinity or femininity or exclusion from an activity based on sexual orientation or gender identity also may violate this Policy.
These definitions have been inspired by Harvard University’s Policy against Gender and Sexual Harassment.
