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Title 34. LABOR AND INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS · Chapter 5A. SEXUAL HARASSMENT IN GOVERNMENT WORKPLACES

34-5A-1. Sexual harassment defined.

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Current through: Including Acts of the 2025 Regular Session of the General Assembly.

  1. As used in this chapter, the term “sexual harassment” means sexual advances, requests for sexual favors, sexual or sex-based conduct, or any other unwelcome and offensive conduct of a sexual nature where:

  2. (A)

    Submission to the conduct involved is made, implicitly or explicitly, a term or condition of work;#

  3. (B)

    Submission to or rejection of the conduct is used as the basis for a personnel decision affecting the individual’s work; or#

  4. (C)

    Such conduct creates an intimidating, hostile, or offensive work environment, provided that an intimidating, hostile, or offensive work environment is not created when the conduct does not rise above the level of what a reasonable person would consider merely tactless, inconsiderate, overfamiliar, or otherwise impolite, particularly with regard to the totality of the circumstances.#

Reading note: a word broken across two lines in the printed volume was joined by rule and could not be checked against the volume's own vocabulary. The official page linked below settles any doubt.

The notes below are printed with the section but are not enacted law (O.C.G.A. § 1-1-1(c)). They are shown apart from the text.

History

Code 1981, § 34-5A-1, enacted by Ga. L. 2022, p. 347, § 1/HB 1390.

Cross references

Fair employment practices, § 45-19-20 et seq.

Law reviews

For annual survey on labor and employment law, see 74 Mercer L. Rev. 153 (2022). For annual survey on local governments, see 74 Mercer L. Rev. 197 (2022).

Read the official page (the state's PDF, opened at the page this text was read from).

Current through: Including Acts of the 2025 Regular Session of the General Assembly.

Text read from t34-(v26)-pdf.pdf, Volume V26, 2017 edition, 2025 supplement, pages 16 to 17; merge action: added; file SHA-256 fbb5a8d0f75f.