Your workplace and school or college must be a place where you feel safe from other people harassing you (this includes your co-workers or other students). It is unlawful for anyone to pressure you into having any sexual contact with them in return for giving you a job or promotion or doing anything else for you. If you are sexually harassed at work, or at school, or college, you could get compensation for “humiliation, loss of dignity and injury to your feelings” as well as loss of earnings through the Human Rights Commission. If you are sexually harassed by your employer or by someone else at work and your employer does not deal with your complaint properly you might be able to get compensation through the Employment Relations Authority (phone 0800 20 90 20) or the Human Rights Commission (phone 0800 496 877).
(ss62, 76 & 92I-92P Human Rights Act 1993; ss101,108, 114(5), 117, 123, Employment Relations Act 2000).