Employee Harassment
An employee may spend at least eight hours every working day at his or her workplace. On these times, the employee will have lot of communication and contact with superiors and fellow workers.
While rules and regulations could help make sure that the environment is friendly and safe, an employee may still suffer from discrimination or misconduct by his or her co-employee or superior.
Definition
Harassment basically occurs when a person feels tormented by the behavior or conduct exerted upon him by another person or group. In the workplace, employee harassment is basically an unwelcome verbal or physical misconduct by a fellow worker or superior. This misconduct may have been exerted based on the person’s race, religion, gender, age, retaliation, geographic origin, or disability, among others.
Employee harassment may cause hostile environment in the workplace, workplace violence, or, when done by a superior, may compromise the status of the employee despite his or her skills and qualifications.
Examples of employee harassment
Some of the more common examples of employee harassment are sexual in nature. These may include unwelcome or unsolicited remarks about the body or a particularly sensitive part of the employee physique. They may even include actual physical harassment such as leering, “accidental” touching, or even staring at a socially-regarded sensitive part of the body. Other examples of harassment may include offensive and insensitive racist or religious remarks, stereotyping an employee based on his or her country or region of origin, unwelcome remarks about the employee’s age, Pregnancy Harassment, Gender Harassment, and making derogatory references of the employee’s impairment.