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City of Lino Lakes WORKPLACE HARASSMENT POLICY The City wants to maintain a comfortable and productive work environment that fosters professionalism. Employees must be free to exercise their duties without fear of verbal or physical intimidation or duress. The City realizes that the seriousness of harassment and expresses its earnest desire to prevent the occurrence of such incidents. POLICY: A fundamental key and policy of the City is to maintain a working environment which is free of discrimination and harassment of any kind. Both Title 7 of the Federal Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Chapter 363 of Minnesota State Statutes prohibits discrimination and harassment (hereafter abbreviated as "harassment") in the workplace. The City does not condone and will not knowingly tolerate harassment by an employee of any other City employee, job applicant, official or member of the public with whom employees come into contact while doing work. Simply put, harassment has no place in the work place. GENERAL DEFINITION: Workplace harassment may be defined as: comments, or actions with respect to an employee's religion, race, color, creed, national origin, sex, marital status, age, sexual orientation or medical or disabling condition which comments or actions causes an employee to worry or torment or forces the employee being harassed into situations or behavior not required by the employee's job responsibilities. Examples of Workplace Harassment: The following are some examples of conduct which may be considered harassment: (1) Remarks about a person's body, or sexual activities. (2) Racial, sexual or ethnic comments. (3) Patting, pinching or unnecessary touching. (4) Demanding or suggesting that sexual favors be granted and, if they are not, one's existing job or promotion potential will suffer. (5) Physical assault. (6) Favoritism to one employee over another which has its origins in religion, color, race, sex, etc. (7) Derogatory remarks about a person's age or physical condition. (8) Relating jokes or dissemination of pictures, cartoons, or stories which are offensive because they relate to race, sex, age, etc.