What is workplace violence or harassment?
A. Workplace harassment is when someone harasses you while you are doing your job, or on your way to or from work. Harassment is not a joke. It is cruel and destructive behaviour that can have devastating effects. Harassment is any unwelcome action by any person, in particular, by management, customer, client, or co-worker, which humiliates, insults, or degrades. “Unwelcome” or “unwanted” in this context means any action that the harasser knows or ought reasonably to know is not desired. Harassment is an expression of perceived power and superiority by the harasser(s) over another person, usually for reasons that the victim has little or no control over, including sex, race, sexual orientation, disability, religion, place of national origin or immigration status. People can harass other people on the basis of more than one aspect of their identity. For example, a man harassing a woman of colour may use language that insults her both as a woman and as a person of colour. Workplace viole
