- Employees back possibility of holding organisations accountable when sensitisation is ignored
KINGSTON, Jamaica -The working class is championing the implementation of the Sexual Harassment (Protection and Prevention) Act as members claim that they are at a loss when it comes to reporting incidents of sexual harassment within their places of employment.
The Act came into effect on July 3, but was passed in 2021. Under the law, workplaces and institutions are required to issue sexual harassment policies and bring those policies to the attention of workers. The policy should advise how complaints of sexual harassment should be reported and addressed.
However, there are many who still have issues with ascertaining what constitutes sexual harassment and the process of making a report should an incident occur. As a result there are those who have been sexually harassed and would have decided to ignore it.
“I have been sexually harassed in the work place but at the time I did not even take it as that or realise that it was sexual harassment, so I had brushed it off and ignored it,” said one woman who wanted to be identified as Vanessa H.
She told OBSERVER ONLINE that while it did not directly happen at her place of work—as she is a radiographer with a private company— it did happen with a business affiliated with her company. She said that even if she had recognised the incident as sexual harassment, she would not know how to make a report as her workplace has never done any...
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