Workplace Harassment

How to know if you are facing workplace harassment?

Harassment is understood as unwelcomed behaviors, practices, and policies that target someone based upon their race, color, religion, sexual orientation or gender identity, sex (including pregnancy and maternity status), nationality, age, the possibility of them being affected by any physical or mental disability or genetic information.

Despite the constant creation of awareness and prevention measures against harassment in the workplace, the volume of harassment complaints remains unfortunately steady. Within the workplace context, harassment becomes unlawful in situations where the expectation of enduring the offensive conduct becomes a condition of continued employment or when the conduct is severe or pervasive enough to create an environment that a reasonable person would consider intimidating, hostile, or abusive.

What forms of harassment can the law protect you from?

To qualify as harassment, the offensive behaviors need to be severe, pervasive, or both. The behaviors themselves, however, can be anything from offensive jokes cracked in the office, to lewd pictures taped to someone’s desk, to mockery and put-downs in public, to threats of physical assault—or plain old interfering with a person’s ability to do his or her job undisturbed. Most of the common claims for workplace harassment cover one or several of the following:

We know how intimidating facing any form of harassment can be, and we are here to protect you from the threats of those acting against your integrity.

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