---
kind: "section"
citation: "41 C.F.R. § 60-20.8"
title: "41"
number: "60-20.8"
heading: "Harassment and hostile work environments."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/41/60-20.8"
---

# §60-20.8. Harassment and hostile work environments.

- (a) **Harassment on the basis of sex is a violation of Executive Order 11246, as amended.** Unwelcome sexual advances, requests for sexual favors, offensive remarks about a person's sex, and other verbal or physical conduct of a sexual nature constitute sexual harassment when:
  - (1) Submission to such conduct is made either explicitly or implicitly a term or condition of an individual's employment;
  - (2) Submission to or rejection of such conduct by an individual is used as the basis for employment decisions affecting such individual; or
  - (3) Such conduct has the purpose or effect of unreasonably interfering with an individual's work performance or creating an intimidating, hostile, or offensive working environment.
- (b) Harassment because of sex includes sexual harassment (including sexual harassment based on gender identity or transgender status); harassment based on pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions; and harassment that is not sexual in nature but that is because of sex or sex-based stereotypes.

## Notes

### Authority

Authority: Sec. 201, E.O. 11246, 30 FR 12319, 3 CFR, 1964-1965 Comp., p. 339 as amended by E.O. 11375, 32 FR 14303, 3 CFR 1966-1970 Comp., p. 684; E.O. 12086, 43 FR 46501, 3 CFR 1978 Comp., p. 230; E.O. 13279, 67 FR 77141, 3 CFR, 2002 Comp., p. 258; and E.O. 13672, 79 FR 42971.

### Source

Source: 81 FR 39166, June 15, 2016, unless otherwise noted.