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Sexual Harassment in The Work Place
Sexual Harassment in The Work Place
Sexual Harassment in The Work Place
WHAT ARE SOME EXAMPLES? Unwanted sexual advances Offering employment benefits in exchange for sexual favors Making sexual gestures or displaying sexually suggestive objects, pictures, cartoons or posters
REMEMBER
Never be afraid to file a complaint Employers are generally liable for harassment by their supervisors or agents By law employers take all reasonable steps to prevent harassment from occurring. If an employer has failed to take such preventive measures, that employer can be held liable for the harassment If a non-employee(client or customer) has sexually harassed an employee, and fails to take immediate and appropriate corrective action, the employer may be held liable for the actions of the nonemployee
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5. Write down any act of sexual harassment and keep it 100% confidential. 6. An employee from HR needs to then sit down with the victim and the presumed harasser to sit down for an informal resolution to discuss what happened in the situation.
7. HR will deal with the matter after a written explanation has been drawn up to decide what the final consequence will be. 8. HR will confirm the consequence with the boss of the company, if the employee feels that the victim has stated their case well with evidence and possibly witnesses then he presumed harasser will be fired.
Sexual Harassment is a real thing and everybody needs to be aware of the definition of what it is and how to prevent it from happening.