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CITY EMPLOYMENT AND EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY
Every city staff person and applicant for city employment, has a right to equal employment opportunities and a work environment free from harassment and discrimination.
City Policy
Civil Service
Sexual Harassment
City Policy
Employment discrimination and sexual harassment is illegal under federal, state and local civil rights laws. The City of Tucson has both laws and Administrative Directives to provide a workplace free of discrimination and sexual harassment.
These policies protect the employment rights of both city employees and applicants for city employment. The City will not tolerate or condone employment discrimination or sexual harassment and will take action to prevent and correct such behavior.
Under the City's Civil Service-Human Resources Ordinance, Tucson Code Chapter 10 §10-17, it is unlawful to discriminate in city employment on the basis of:
- Race
- Color
- National origin
- Ancestry
- Religion
- Sex
- Disability
- Age
- Sexual orientation
- Gender identity
- Familial status
- Marital status
- Political opinions, beliefs, or affiliations.
It is unlawful to engage in sexual harassment, discrimination, and/or retaliation against someone because of a specific characteristic or group of characteristics. Sexual harassment is any unwelcome sexual advances, requests for sexual favors, and other offensive verbal, visual, and/or physical sexual conduct. Examples of sexual harassment may include:
- Unwanted sexual advances
- Demands for sexual favors in exchange for favorable treatment or continued employment
- Threats and demands to submit to sexual requests in order to obtain or retain any employment benefits
- Verbal conduct such as epithets, derogatory or obscene comments; slurs, sexual invitations, sexual jokes, propositions; suggestive, insulting, obscene comments or gestures and/or other verbal abuse of a sexual nature
- Graphic, verbal commentary about an individual's body, sexual prowess or sexual deficiencies
- Flirtations, advances, leering, whistling, touching, pinching, assault, coerced sexual acts, physically blocking or impeding movements
- Visual conduct such as derogatory or sexual posters, photographs, cartoons, drawings or gestures or other displays in the workplace of sexually suggestive objects or pictures
- Conduct and/or comments that consistently target only one gender, even if the content is not of a sexual nature
It is unlawful to retaliate against someone; to take action against another that causes interference, coercion, restraint, reprisal, harassment when exercising a legally protected right and/or assisting in an investigation. |
