<p>Welcome to Littler´s Employment Law Quiz! Fine-tune your knowledge of employment law while improving your employee relations skills at the same time. You can test yourself or send this quiz around to your managers. Good luck!</p>
<p><b>Preventing Sexual Harassment</b></p>
<p><i>The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) defines sexual harassment as unwelcome sexual advances, requests for sexual favors, and other verbal or physical conduct of a sexual nature when:</i></p>
<p>A. Submission to such conduct is made a term or condition of employment.</p>
<p>B. Submission to or rejection of such conduct is used as a basis for employment decisions affecting the individual.</p>
<p>C. Such conduct has the purpose or effect of unreasonably interfering with an employee´s work performance.</p>
<p>D. Such conduct has the purpose or effect of creating an intimidating, hostile or offensive working environment.</p>
<p>E. All of the above.</p>
<p><b>The best answer is E.</b> All of the above defines what is meant by sexual harassment under the EEOC´s guidelines. <i>Economic</i> sexual harassment occurs when a supervisor or manager conditions an employment benefit or continued employment on the employee´s acquiescence in sexual behavior. Hostile environment sexual harassment occurs where sexual jokes, graffiti, suggestive remarks, cartoons or sexually derogatory comments create an intimidating, hostile or offensive work environment.</p>
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