Measures To Combat Sexual Harassment At The Workingplace

Author : Kim Irwin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 28 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (355 download)

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Download or read book A Step-By-Step Guide for Victims of Sexual Harassment in the Workplace written by Kim Irwin and published by . This book was released on 2021-05-12 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This manual is a step-by-step guide for victims of sexual harassment in the workplace in Ireland. It contains all necessary and relevant information for employees to ensure that their right not to be sexually harassed in the workplace is vindicated by their employer, and for employers to ensure that they are satisfying their legal obligation to protect all employees from sexual harassment by ensuring that the workplace is a safe environment. Every employer in Ireland is responsible for any sexual harassment that an employee is subjected to. Thus, every employer is obliged by law to have policies, procedures and training in place which are expressly dedicated to protecting employees from sexual harassment in three fundamental ways. Firstly and most importantly, they must be committed to preventing sexual harassment from occurring in the first place. Secondly, employers must act to reverse the effect(s) of sexual harassment on the victim. Lastly, they must act to prevent the sexual harassment from reoccurring. If an employer fails in any of these obligations and a complaint of sexual harassment is not dealt with properly or taken seriously, a complaint can be made to a public body named the Workplace Relations Commission (WRC), which will deal with the complaint independently of the company or organization. The WRC was established in 2015 to promote, improve and maintain positive workplace relations. The WRC also ensures and encourages compliance with industrial relation laws in Ireland. When a claim is made to the WRC about an employer's response to a complaint of sexual harassment, the objective is to resolve the inadequacy of an employer's action or inaction. This is a civil procedure which is free of charge and is totally independent of the criminal justice system. The guide contains information about victimization, which is also illegal in Ireland. Victimization in this context is when an employee is treated negatively due to the fact that they have made a complaint in work. If an employee is victimized because they made a complaint of sexual harassment to their employer, they may be entitled to compensation. Compensation can be granted by the WRC for both victimization and for an employer's insufficient response/ failure to satisfy their legal obligations in relation to a complaint of sexual harassment. The guide is divided into three parts, the first part containing essential information about what your rights are and how your employer is expected to treat you under the law. The second part will guide you through both informal and formal methods of complaining and goes through, in detail, how each complaint procedure works. The last part is an appendix of sources for advice and emotional support. This guide contains succinct and detailed information which is based on thorough research of Irish law.