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Sexual Harassment: A Powerpoint Template

The document discusses sexual harassment, defining it as unwelcome sexual conduct that affects employment. It notes the legal protections against sexual harassment under Philippine law and the US Civil Rights Act. The document also outlines the different types of sexual harassment, potential causes, impacts, and strategies for preventing harassment through clear policies and training programs.

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Sexual Harassment: A Powerpoint Template

The document discusses sexual harassment, defining it as unwelcome sexual conduct that affects employment. It notes the legal protections against sexual harassment under Philippine law and the US Civil Rights Act. The document also outlines the different types of sexual harassment, potential causes, impacts, and strategies for preventing harassment through clear policies and training programs.

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SEXUAL

HARASSMENT

A PowerPoint Template

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Learning Objectives
•Students can recognize the faces
of sexual harassment to prevent
its occurrence in the workplace.
What is Sexual
Harassment?
Sexual harassment is an issue
in the corporate world that must
be looked into because it can
create a hostile and unhealthy
workplace for the employees
What is Sexual
Harassment?
RA 7877 - The Anti-Sexual Act of
1995
declares sexual harassment unlawful in
the employment, education, or
training environment and other
purposes
What is Sexual
Harassment?
“The state shall value the dignity
of every individual, enhance the
development of its human
resources, guarantee respect for
human rights, and uphold the
dignity of workers, employees,
applicants for employment,
students or those undergoing
training, instruction or education.”
The Civil Acts Right of 1964 (Title VII) of the
US from which our law was patterned defines
Sexual harassment

Sexual harassment - “unwelcome sexual


advances, requests for sexual favors and
other verbal or physical conduct of
sexual in nature constitute sexual
harassment when submission to or
rejection of this conduct explicitly or
implicitly affects an individual’s
employment, unreasonably interferes
with an individual’s work performance
or creates an intimidating, hostile or
offensive work environment.”
• Republic Act 7877 defines sexual
harassment as, “Employer, employee,
manager, supervisor, agent of the
employer, teacher, instructor, professor,
coach, trainor, or any other person
who, having authority, influence or
moral ascendancy over another in
work, or training, or education
environment demands, requests or
otherwise requires any sexual favor
from the other, regardless whether the
demand, requests or requirement for
submission is accepted by the object of
the said act”
Why does Sexual
Harassment Occur?
•Sexual harassment occur due to
power struggle between men
and women as a response to a
real or imagined loss of power or
as an expression of retaliation of
a flexing of the new power
•It also happens because some
organizations and managers
allow it to happen
Why does Sexual
Harassment Occur?
•The responsibility of men and
women become more
specialized
•More and more women joined
jobs that were traditionally held
by men. As a result of these
changes, the balance is shifting.
Sexual harassment is one effect
of this shift
Why does Sexual
Harassment Occur?
•When sexual harassment is
committed by a male to a female,
it may be responsible to a real or
imagined loss of power.
•When committed by a woman
towards a man, it may be an
expression of retaliation or
flexing of the new power
Two Types of Sexual
Harassment
1. the “Quid Pro Quo”
2. The harassment that creates a
hostile environment
•Quid Pro Quo means “this for that”
(something for something) and is
defined as requiring a sexual favor
or interaction as a condition of
employment or in exchange for
employment benefit (promotion,
transfer, pay raise,. etc)
•In the hostile environment type,
abuses include verbal, physical and
visual conducts that create an
intimidating, offensive or hostile
environment in the workplace that
interferes with work performance
•It may be based on race, religion,
national origin, sex, age, marital
status, sexual orientation or
disability.
Some Examples of a Hostile
Environment:
1. Unwanted touching, patting,
pinching or brushing up against a
person
2. Comments about your body,
leering, wolf-whistling, catcalls,
insults of a sexual nature,
persistently pestering for a date
3. Displaying or circulation of
pornographic pictures with the
intention of harassing
someone/posting of explicitly
sexual materials
Some Examples of a Hostile
Environment:
4. Workplace blackmails (e.g.
suggestion that sexual favors may
further your career or refusal may
hinder it)
5. Green jokes
6. Obscene letters
7. Sexual proposition
8. Suggestive looks
Profiles of the Victim
and the Harasser
1. The victim may be a man and
woman. The victim does not
have to be of the opposite sex
2. The harasser can be the victim’s
supervisor, an agent of the
employer, a supervisor in
another area, a co worker or a
non employee
3. The victim does not have to be
the person harassed but could
be anyone affected by the
offensive conduct
Profiles of the Victim
and the Harasser
4. The harasser’s conduct must be
unwelcome

•It is helpful for the victim to


inform directly the harasser that
the conduct is unwelcome and
must stop
•The victim should use any
employer complaint mechanism
or grievance system available.
Profiles of the Victim
and the Harasser
•Although the victim of sexual
harassment may be peers, more
frequently, the victims are in a
position of lesser position than
the accused
•Harassment also occurs between
customer/client and providers
How does Sexual Harassment
Affect the Workplace?
•It can generate costly lawsuits
•I can generate unfavorable
publicity or the invasion pf
privacy
•It can also affect the bottom line
of the employer, managers and
co-workers and affect the entire
life of an organization and its
members
How to Prevent Sexual
Harassment in the Workplace
By creating a safe, secure and
positive work environment by
putting into practice a strong
sexual harassment policy can
prevent sexual harassment in the
workplace
How to Prevent Sexual
Harassment in the Workplace
Some Examples for Policy
Development:
1. A broad anti-harassment
/positive environment policy
that includes a statement that
specifically addresses sexual
harassment
2. A separate sexual harassment
policy that covers all
organizational members
3. Separate sexual harassment
policy, one that addresses non-
management employees and
one that addresses
management
Sexual harassment is very costly
and causes low morale among
employees and a decrease in
productivity.
Communicating the Sexual
Harassment Policy
•The best policy is ineffective if it
is not communicated well.
•Expose the policy through
permanent posting
•Training programs with various
topics to support the anti-
harassment programs.
Legal Penalties of RA
7877
•Imprisonment of not less than
one (1) month but not more
than six (6) months
•Fine of not less than Ten
Thousand Pesos (P10,000) but
not more than Twenty Thousand
Pesos (P20,000)

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