This is the type of sexual harassment that:

• Results in tangible employment action
  
  
• Can be committed only by someone who can make or influence employment actions (firing, demotion, denial of promotion etc.)
  
  
• An employer is strictly liable for supervisor harassment of this type.

Sexually based unwelcome conduct of supervisors, co-workers, customers, vendors or anyone else with whom the employee interacts on the job.

Such conduct must be  "sufficiently severe or pervasive to alter the conditions of [their] employment.“
(Penn. State Police v. Saders, 206 U.S. Dist. Lexis 11823 (2006))

A hostile environment may be the result of (but is not limited to):

• Discussing sexual activities at work
• Telling off-color jokes
• Unnecessary touching
• Displaying sexually suggestive pictures in office or on a computer
• Using crude and offensive language
• Threatening to impose a sexual quid pro quo even if not carried out.

• It can occur in a workplace or classroom
  
  
• Location is not an issue if the one doing the harassing is in a position of power
  
  
• The issue is whether the parties can leave without jeopardizing their jobs or education
  
  
• Work and school are different than other places because of the fact you can not leave without consequences.

• Men
  
  
• Women
  
  
• Employees
  
  
• Supervisors
  
  
• Students