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What Is Sexual Harassment at Work?

The definition in Section 14A of the Employment Equality Acts, the difference between sexual harassment and harassment, examples of each form and why intent does not matter.

Sexual harassment at work is defined in Section 14A of the Employment Equality Acts 1998 to 2015 as any form of unwanted verbal, non verbal or physical conduct of a sexual nature which has the purpose or effect of violating a person's dignity and creating an intimidating, hostile, degrading, humiliating or offensive environment for the person. Two words in that definition carry the weight: unwanted, and effect. The conduct does not have to be intended to offend. It is harassment if it has that effect.

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Any form of unwanted verbal, non verbal or physical conduct of a sexual nature which has the purpose or effect of violating a person's dignity and creating an intimidating, hostile, degrading, humiliating or offensive environment for the person, under Section 14A of the Employment Equality Acts.

No. The test includes conduct that has the effect of violating dignity, whatever the intention behind it.

Yes. One incident that meets the definition is enough; there is no requirement for repeated conduct.

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Every organisation with employees, because sexual harassment can happen in any industry and at any level of employment, and the law holds the employer answerable for preventing it. Under the Employment Equality Acts 1998 to 2015 an employer's defence rests on proving it took reasonably practicable steps, and the Code of Practice on Sexual Harassment and Harassment at Work names training for all staff as one of those steps. Waiting until a complaint arrives is the one strategy the law does not forgive.

In practice, the people taking this course with us are office and corporate teams, retail and hospitality staff, healthcare and care workers, warehouse, factory and site crews, new starters during induction, and the owners, HR teams and managers responsible for them.

If your organisation has employees who work with other people, this training is for you, and our Irish support team can help roll it out across every location.

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What Is Sexual Harassment at Work?

The definition in Section 14A of the Employment Equality Acts, the difference between sexual harassment and harassment, examples of each form and why intent does not matter.

The forms it takes

Physical: unwelcome touching, patting, pinching, brushing against someone, blocking their way, assault. Verbal: sexual comments and jokes, remarks about appearance or body, propositions, questions about a person's sex life, sexual name calling, whistling, comments spread as gossip. Non verbal: leering, sexually suggestive gestures, displaying pornographic or sexual material, sexual images or messages sent by text, email or social media, following someone. Sex based conduct: conduct that demeans a person because of their sex, such as sexist remarks and denigration, is harassment on the gender ground under the same section.

Sexual harassment and harassment

Section 14A also defines harassment as unwanted conduct related to any of the nine discriminatory grounds, gender, civil status, family status, sexual orientation, religion, age, disability, race and membership of the Traveller community, with the same purpose or effect test. Sexual harassment is conduct of a sexual nature specifically; harassment covers demeaning conduct tied to who a person is. Both are unlawful, both are treated as discrimination, and both are covered by the IHREC Code of Practice.

Who is covered

Harassment by a colleague, a manager, the employer, a client, a customer, a supplier or any other business contact, at the workplace or in the course of employment: work trips, training, conferences, social events organised by work, and online. Employees, agency workers, applicants, trainees and people on work experience are protected. A single incident can be enough.

Section 14A

Unwanted conduct of a sexual nature with the purpose or effect of violating dignity.

Effect, not intent

A joke that was not meant to offend is harassment if it has that effect.

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