Harassment in the Workplace
- Living for Today
- Dec 31, 2020
- 1 min read
It is Sublime Living/Eubank Ranch policy to maintain a work environment free of harassment for all employees regardless of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, and reprisal for protected activity.
1) Describe what harassment is to you and how you can help to prevent it.
Harassment can prohibit speech or someone from taking action which may lead to a hostile work evironment. It is important to respect other employees/residents regardless of race, color, religion, age, or disability. Communication is also important if such harassment does take place in a work environment so it doesn’t go unnoticed.
Harassment to me is persistently exhibiting behavior that is offensive and demeaning in nature and could be directed towards someones race, religion, gender or sexual orientation. It can be physical or verbal and under ANY circumstances, should be tolerated in and outside of the workplace.
Sexual harassment comes in many ways and levels such as explicit or implicit remarks and overtones to verbal transgressions and it can be prevented by not saying insensitive jokes, keeping a positive workplace and calling out bad behavior
I believe it’s clear that harassment is not tolerated in the workplace. Harassment covers a wide range of behaviors of an offensive nature. It is commonly understood as behavior that demeans, humiliates or embarrasses a person, and it is characteristically identified by its unlikelihood in terms of social and moral reasonableness. No one should be singled out for any of the above reasons. Nor should anyone be bullied which is a form of severe harassment. As a team, it’s our responsibility to recognize and acknowledge when there is a potential issue.
Harassment is unwelcome verbal and/or physical conduct that demeans, insults and offends a person.
If you have a situation where you are trying to determine if some conduct that has taken place is actually harassing conduct, the way to determine it is to use the "reasonable person" standard. If a reasonable person in the same or similar circumstances would find the conduct intimidating, hostile, or abusive, then it's probably harassment. Prompt action should be taken against the harasser by either verbally confronting them about what you know is offensive and/or by notifying management of the situation.