Harassment Prevention Services

What is harassment and what is not?

Sometimes, things aren't clear... Can we trust the allegations? It might just be a disagreement between 2 persons? Where is the frontier between occasional or even involuntary wrong behavior and harassment? The definition of harassment is quite clear. But the identification of harassment situations is sometimes uneasy.

Use a professional to help you identify whether the allegations are serious and what actions are required.


           
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How to react?
It is your duties as Employer to provide a clear policy indicating what your employees should do in case they feel victim of workplace harassment or in case they witness acts of workplace harassment. The policy will include indication of who to report those facts to, in which format, indication of the protection of the victim or witness against retaliations and what support is available to them.

Definitions

Moral Harassment is unwanted conduct with the purpose or effect of violating the dignity of a person and of creating an intimidating, hostile, degrading, humiliating or offensive environment.

Sexual harassment is any form of unwanted verbal, non-verbal or physical conduct of a sexual nature occurs, with the purpose or effect of violating the dignity of a person, in particular when creating an intimidating, hostile, degrading, humiliating or offensive environment.

Spotting signs of Moral harassment
  • Staying away from work-related social events
  • Colleagues leave the workspace when you enter
  • Silent treatment
  • Being treated rudely or disrespectfully, being insulted
  • Being assigned tasks that do not correspond at all with our function
  • Seeing our function emptied of substance
  • Receiving derogatory remarks about your intelligence or skills
  • Your phone calls, contributions or other communications are ignored
  • Someone interfering with or sabotaging your work
  • Being the target of offensive or humiliating 'jokes'.

Spotting signs of Sexual harassment

  • Verbal: Offensive jokes, personal questions, language, threats, comments about appearance or body, spreading rumors or lies, sexual insults, giving nicknames, making insinuations.
  • Non-verbal: Staring at a person's body, offensive gestures, blocking a person's path, facial expressions such as winking, blowing kisses, offering gifts, an “elevator” look.
  • Physical: Touching, blocking the way, massaging, brushing against, massaging, “circling”, holding or grabbing, non-consensual sex.
  • Environmental: Voicemail, e-mail, wallpaper, blogs, website postings, suggestive or sexual posters, calendars, cards, notes, etc.