Sexual Harassment

Sexual Harassment

Introduction

Sexual harassment defined as any unwelcome sexual conduct by the recipient repeatedly and causing adverse effects in the following cases.

Material conditions of employment or educational

Performance and compliance work or education.

General state of well being. 

It also considered sexual harassment severe behavior having occurred once; harm the victim in any of the items listed.

Discussion

Manifestations of sexual harassment

Sexual harassment can occur through the following behaviors.

Requirements involving sexual favors.

Promise, implicit or explicit, of preferential treatment on the situation, current or future employment or study of the recipient.

Threats, express or implied, physical or moral harm or punishment referred to the situation, current or future employment or study of the receivers.

Requirement of a subject whose behavior is or refusal, implicitly or explicitly a condition of employment or study.

Using the words of a sexual nature, whether written or oral, those are hostile, humiliating or offensive to the receivers.

Approaches body or other physical conduct of a sexual nature, unwanted and offensive for those who receive them.

Responsibilities of prevention

Every employer will have chief responsibility for maintaining, in the place of work, conditions of respect for those who work there, by means of an internal policy to prevent, discourage, prevent and punish sexual harassment behaviors. - To that end, should action expressed in the regulations, collective agreements, and arrangements or otherwise direct not limited to, include the following;

Communicate, in written and oral, supervisors, representatives, employees, employees and customers of the existence of a policy against sexual harassment.

Establish an internal procedure, adequate and effective to allow allegations of sexual harassment ensure the confidentiality of complaints and punish harassing people when there is cause.

The procedure mentioned in the preceding paragraph, in no event exceed a period of three months from the filing of the complaint of sexual harassment (Dougherty, 2009).

Sexual harassment in the workplace

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