Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Anti-Sexual Harassment PDF
Anti-Sexual Harassment PDF
an ten
Date of incident
thousand pesos (P10,000) nor more than twenty
thousand pesos (P20,000) or both at the discretion
What Every Employee
Time of incident
Place of incident
of the court.
Should Know about
Name of person/s who caused the
harassment
What actually happened
How the victim felt at the time of the
harassment
Name of any person who is present at the
time (i.e. saw the incident itself/ who can
corroborate the event(s) that preceded or
followed the incident)
Don’t suffer in silence. Seek advice and
support from trusted friends and colleagues.
Take a formal action and file:
an administrative complaint with the
company’s CODI; and/or
an independent civil action with the courts to
enforce payment of damages or injuries What if the offender is a co-employee of
and/or for preliminary injunction or equivalent or lower rank than the offended
temporary restraining order; and/or a party?
a criminal case with the courts to penalize
The said act of ‘sexual harassment’ is not
the harasser with imprisonment or fine or
covered by RA 7877. However, some specific
both for the commission of the sexual
provisions of the Revised Penal Code may be
harassment.
applied.
Any action arising from the violation of the
provisions of RA 7877 must be filed within
SEXUAL
three (3) years from the time it is committed.
Keep a record of efficiency or merit citations. Sources:
This is very important to prove job competence Republic Act No. 7877 Anti-Sexual Harassment Act
in case you are demoted or worse, fired from of 1995
the job, because of refusal from sexual Women’s Legal Bureau
HARASSMENT
advances or reporting a committed act or acts Brighton Borough Council Policy on Sexual
of sexual harassment. Harassment East Sussex, Brighton England, 1990.