{"data":{"id":"us-ga/o.c.g.a.-34-5a-1","jurisdiction":"us-ga","citation":"O.C.G.A. § 34-5A-1","heading":"Sexual harassment defined.","body":"As used in this chapter, the term “sexual harassment” means sexual advances, requests for sexual favors, sexual or sex-based conduct, or any other unwelcome and offensive conduct of a sexual nature where:\n(A) Submission to the conduct involved is made, implicitly or explicitly, a term or condition of work;\n(B) Submission to or rejection of the conduct is used as the basis for a personnel decision affecting the individual’s work; or\n(C) Such conduct creates an intimidating, hostile, or offensive work environment, provided that an intimidating, hostile, or offensive work environment is not created when the conduct does not rise above the level of what a reasonable person would consider merely tactless, inconsiderate, overfamiliar, or otherwise impolite, particularly with regard to the totality of the circumstances.","path":["TITLE 34 Labor and Industrial Relations","CHAPTER 5A Sexual Harassment in Government Workplaces"],"source_url":"https://archive.org/download/gov.ga.ocga.2018/release86.2022.11/gov.ga.ocga.title.34.odt","current_through":"Release 86 (2022-11)","vintage":"Public.Resource.Org bulk O.C.G.A., Release 86 (2022-11), retrieved 2026-09-17","retrieved_at":"2026-09-17T19:34:57Z","sha256":"07a5073bf89d899f95974b0b5367157725daffcdd5730fcf48128afc626ddb29","source_id":"us-ga","stale":false,"prev":"us-ga/o.c.g.a.-34-5-7","next":"us-ga/o.c.g.a.-34-5a-2"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}