Legal Question in Sexual Harassment in Virginia

Re: Terminated for Sexual Harrasment

Sexual harrasment prohibited under fedral antidiscrimination law is of two types: one being the so-called quid pro quo type where an employee is coereced or pressured into providing sexual favors by a supervisor(usually) or other person in a position of superior power or position over that employee who may then be rewarded with a promotion or some other kind of benefit in return for the sexual favor(s), and the second type of sexual harrasment recognized and prohibited under federal law is sexual harrasment which creates or results in a hostile work environment for the employee who is the subject of such harrasment.

Both types of the above-described conduct are illegal under federal (as well as many state and local laws)and are actionable in the U.S. district court where the proscribed conduct occurred.

However, notwithstanding all of the foregoing, as best as I can determine, the situation which you've described in your question would not appear to fit under either of the above-described categories of prohibited conduct and, therefore,

would not be actionable (at least)under federal antidiscrimination law as it is currently constituted.