SEXUAL

HARASSMENT
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 PRESENTORS…

AGUSTO, Sheryll A. AVECILLA, Shareen G. AYSON, Miko B.

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 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. All
forms of sexual harassment in the
employment, education or training
environment are hereby declared unlawful.
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 Civil Rights Act of 1964 of the United
States of America.
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 Republic Act No. 7877
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 Why does sexual harassment occur ?
 Sexual harassment occurs due to
the power struggle between men  Sexual Harassment has always
and women as a response to a occurred but there used to be
real or imagined loss of power no label for such behavior.
or as an expression of retaliation
or flexing of the new power.
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 “
TYPES OF SEXUAL HARASSMENT

1. “Quid Pro Quo” Harassment

2. Hostile Environment
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 1. Quid Pro Quo
means “this for that” (something for something), and
defined as requiring a sexual favor or interaction as a
condition of employment or in exchange for an
employment benefit.
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 2. HOSTILE ENVIRONMENT
 Abuses include verbal, physical, and visual conducts that
create an intimidating, offensive, or hostile environment in
the workplace that interferes with work performance.
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 Examples:
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.
4. Workplace Blackmails;
 Green jokes
 Obscene letters
 Sexual propositions
 Suggestive looks
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 The Profiles of
the Victim and
the Harasser
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 1. The victim as well as the harasser may be a woman or a man. 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 coworker, or a non
worker.

3. The victim does not have to be the person harassed but could be
anyone affected by the offensive conduct.

4. The harasser’s conduct must be unwelcome.

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 How does Sexual
Harassment Affect the
Workplace?
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 It affects individuals harassed and
the persons accused who may be
innocent.
Such cases can generate costly
lawsuits, unfavorable publicity, or
the invasion of privacy.
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 How to prevent Sexual
Harassment in the Workplace?

 A broad anti-harassment/positive
environment policy that includes a statement
that specifically adresses sexual
harassment.

 A separate sexual harassment policy that

covers all the organizational members.

 Separate sexual harassment policy, one that

adresses non-management employess and
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one that adresses management.

 Communicating the Sexual
Harassment Policy

Training programs may come up with

various topics to support the anti-
harassment programs and to assure
each employee of a safe, and
harassment-free workplace
environment.
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 Legal Penalties of
R.A 7877
 Imprisonment of not less than one
month but not more than six months.

 Fine of not less than Ten Thousand

Pesos but not more than Twenty
Thousand Pesos.
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 REFERENCES:
Concepts:
● Business Ethics and Social
Responsibility_2nd Edition by Fr.
Floriano C. Roa
● https://www.pcg-services.com/s
exual-harassment-workplace/
● https://depositphotos.com/stock
-photos/sexual-harassment.html
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Thank you!
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