Understanding Workplace Discrimination and Harassment Law

Workplace Discrimination and Equality law

Harassment:

Relations at work are almost inevitable. However, there are instances where those relations interferes with work or the generally become offensive. Defining harassment could appear somewhat simple but yet very complicated, due largely to the nature and forms it take. It was until the 1970ties before the word gained entry into mainstream literature. Harassment could be viewed as an offensive behavior that interferes with the dignity of another person. The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) defines it as “unwelcome sexual advances, requests for sexual favors, and other verbal or physical conduct of a sexual nature” In reality harassments are behaviors that upset, disturbs

Workplace harassment could come in different forms and often times overlap with discriminatory acts or violations that may sometimes be directed at someone or a group of persons. It is a persistent pattern of mistreatment from others in the workplace that could sometimes be physical and other times emotional or psychological in

Anecdotally speaking, harassment is an unwelcomed conduct that is based on race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy ) national origin, age, disability or genetic information. Harassment becomes unlawful where enduring the offensive conduct becomes a condition of continued employment or the conduct is severe or pervasive enough to create a work environment where a reasonable person would consider it intimidating, hostile, or abusive.

Harassment at workplace may include matters such as the misuse, misappropriation of power or position by a superior, victimization, degrading a person in the presence of others by passing remarks about their work performance, their brain power or lack of it. It may include spreading rumors about a person, insulting them on ground of race, gender or disability making them less inferior in the presence of others.

In other to describe workplace harassment, the conduct of the person harassing must be based on the

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