What are some examples of a 'hostile work environment'?
Hostile work environment harassment can be one of many different things. Staring at someone in a sexually suggestive manner can be enough to constitute hostile work environment harassment. Whether or not it's going to be hostile work environment harassment, and rise to the level of something that's legally actionable, will depend upon other factors. Whether or not it is objectively offensive to an ordinary person, and whether or not the person who was subjected to this staring was also adversely affected by it, and was actually offended. Other examples of hostile work environment harassment, the obvious example, is physical contact. Any time that you have physical contact with a persons private areas - that will almost invariably rise to the level of legally actionable hostile work environment. If you have sexually suggestive posters, or if you have people who are making derogatory comments towards a particular gender, that, too, can rise to the level of legally actionable hostile work environment harassment, if it is severe enough and pervasive enough.
