Hostile environment claims may involve physical or verbal sexual behavior such as touching, grabbing, pinching, rubbing, demeaning comments, embarrassing sexual jokes, obscene pictures and cartoons. ... Harassing comments, inappropriate gestures and jokes, abusive language, insensitive stereotyping in written or verbal communications of any sort have no place in the military and may be grounds for reprimand and/or discharge. ...

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Tribunals The EOC has looked at 54 employment tribunal decisions, in sexual harassment cases that were heard between 1998 and 2001, to see what those cases revealed. Successful cases The employee Thirty-four cases were successful. In three of those cases the person making the complaint was male. In most cases the harassment began while the person bringing the complaint had been working for that employer for less than one year, and their work tended to be low paid (e.g carers, shop and factory workers, office staff). Shift work was a factor in a third of cases. ...

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