Preventing Sexual Harassment
Cummins maintains a zero- tolerance approach towards any form of sexual harassment.
Sexual harassment includes unwanted sexual advances, requests for sexual favors or physical, verbal, or non-verbal conduct of a sexual nature when:
- Such conduct has the purpose or effect of creating an intimidating, hostile, or offensive working environment or unreasonably interfering with an employee’s work performance even if the conduct is not intended as sexual harassment or the person reporting the conduct is not the intended target of the sexual harassment; or
- Submission to such conduct is made a term or condition of employment; or
- Submission to, or rejection of, such conduct is used as a basis for employment decisions affecting the individual Including, but not limited to, promotion, assignment, compensation, or termination.
Anyone can be a victim of sexual harassment. Sexual harassment can occur between people of a different or the same gender, and across boundaries of sex and gender identification. Any person found engaging in sexual harassment or inappropriate sexual conduct will be subject to disciplinary action, regardless of intent or whether the behavior was meant as a joke. Such conduct may also result in consequence/action under local law (e.g. if the harassment constitutes a criminal act).
Cummins is firmly committed to providing a safe, respectful, and discrimination-free environment: free from all forms of harassment, including sexual harassment.