Let's say you're a corporate executive travelling
overseas and after a day's hard work you head off to the local
watering hole with colleagues based in this foreign hot spot. You
have a few convivial drinks, then a few more, and you loosen up.
You're a long way from home and make a few compliments of the
appearance of the attractive junior assistant who came along for
the social drinks.
However, given your senses are somewhat dulled, you misread the
signals you get back. Your advances are unwelcome. You persist. A
suggestive comment is rejected. Your hand lands in the wrong place.
You make a fumbled attempt to embrace or kiss.
You should have known better and remembered that this was a work
trip. One of your colleagues should have stepped in to head you off
and disentangle the junior employee. But neither happened and you
are now potentially in big trouble under the sexual harassment
rules of Australian workplace laws.
