Labor Code definition : "repeated comments or behavior with sexual connotations that undermine a person's dignity or create an intimidating, hostile or offensive environment".

It also includes the fact, even if not repeated, of exerting any form of serious pressure with the real or apparent aim of obtaining an act of a sexual nature, whether this act is sought for the benefit of the perpetrator or a third party.

Excerpt from Article L1153-1 of the French Labor Code

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This type of harassment can have serious consequences for the victim's mental and physical health, and is strictly forbidden by law.

Penal Code definition :

I- Sexual harassment is the repeated use of sexual or sexist language or behavior that violates a person's dignity by being degrading or humiliating, or that creates an intimidating, hostile or offensive situation.

The offence is also constituted:

1° When these comments or behaviors are imposed on the same victim by several persons, in a concerted manner or at the instigation of one of them, even though each of these persons has not acted repeatedly;

2° When these comments or behaviors are imposed on the same victim, successively, by several persons who, even in the absence of concertation, know that these comments or behaviors characterize a repetition.

II. - Sexual harassment is the use, even if not repeated, of any form of serious pressure with the real or apparent aim of obtaining an act of a sexual nature, whether this is sought for the benefit of the perpetrator or a third party.

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