Bullying and Harassment definition

Bullying and Harassment means any inappropriate conduct or comment, including electronic, by a person toward an employee that the person knew or ought to have known would cause the employee to be humiliated or intimidated, or any other form of unwelcome verbal or physical behavior which by a reasonable standard would be expected to cause insecurity, discomfort, offence or humiliation to an employee or group of employees, and has the purpose or effect of interfering with an employee’s work performance or creating an intimidating, hostile or offensive work environment.
Bullying and Harassment means any unwanted behaviour that makes someone feel intimidated, degraded, humiliated or offended. It might be obvious or it might be insidious. It may be persistent or an isolated incident. It can occur in written communications, by phone or through email, not just face to face.
Bullying and Harassment means inappropriate, vexatious or hostile conduct, comments, actions or gestures that the person knows or reasonably ought to have known would cause the receiver to be offended, humiliated or intimidated, including, but not limited to, acts of aggression verbal or written threats, or vandalism of personal property.

Examples of Bullying and Harassment in a sentence

  • All other forms of bullying and harassment not linked to the protected grounds specified in the BC Human Rights Code fall within the category of General Bullying and Harassment.

  • If the complainant disagrees with the attempted informal resolution, and if the complaint involves Discrimination-based Bullying and Harassment there will be a joint investigation of the complaint.

  • Harassment includes Bullying and Harassment, Discriminatory Harassment, Sexual Harassment and Personal Harassment.

  • Bullying and Harassment: Bullying and harassment are often described as a course of comment or conduct that is known, or ought reasonably to be known, to be unwelcome.

  • Discrimination-based Bullying and Harassment also includes Sexual Harassment.


More Definitions of Bullying and Harassment

Bullying and Harassment means any inappropriate conduct or comment made by a person towards an employee that the person knew or reasonably ought to have known would be unwelcome or would cause that employee to be humiliated or intimidated and includes sexual harassment, but excludes any reasonable action taken by a manager or supervisor relating to the management and direction of employees or the place of employment.
Bullying and Harassment means a course of vexatious comments or conduct that is known
Bullying and Harassment means a course of vexatious comments or conduct that is known or ought to be known to be unwelcome that denies an employee dignity and respect on one or more of the grounds set out in the Canadian Human Rights Act and that results in a hostile work environment, impairs the employee’s work performance and/or adversely affects the employee’s relations in the workplace. Harassment may take many forms: verbal, physical or visual. It may involve a threat or an implied threat or be perceived as a condition of employment. Workplace harassment includes, but is not limited to the following examples: (a) Unwelcome remarks, jokes, innuendos, gestures, or taunting about a person’s body, disability, gender, racial or ethnic background, colour, place of birth, sexual orientation, citizenship or ancestry; (b) Objectionable conduct, comment or display made on either a one-time or continuous basis that is intended to bully, demean, belittle, or cause humiliation or embarrassment; (c) Posting or circulation of visuals of a sexual, racial or otherwise offensive nature such as pornographic pictures, cartoons or graffiti; (d) Refusal to work, converse or share facilities with another employee based on prohibited grounds (CHRA); (e) Unwanted sexual solicitation or advances and physical conduct such as touching, patting, or pinching; (f) Backlash or retaliation for the lodging of a complaint or participation in an investigation. (g) Sexual harassment means any conduct, comment, gesture or contact of a sexual nature that might reasonably be expected to cause offense or humiliation; or that might reasonably be perceived as placing a condition of a sexual nature on employment or on an opportunity for training or promotion.
Bullying and Harassment means any objectionable conduct, comment or display by a person that:
Bullying and Harassment includes any inappropriate conduct or comment by a person towards a worker of VO that the person knew or reasonably ought to have known would cause that individual to be humiliated or intimidated, but excludes any reasonable action taken by VO or a supervisor relating to the management and direction of workers of VO or the place of employment. Examples of Bullying and Harassment include, but are not limited to, such things as: ? words, gestures, actions or practical jokes, the natural consequence of which is to humiliate, ridicule, insult or degrade; ? threats or intimidation; ? cyber bullying – which generally refers to Bullying and Harassment which occurs through the use of text messaging, social media, e-mail and/or the internet; ? physical assault; or ? persistent rudeness, taunting, malicious gossip, patronizing behaviour, vandalizing belongings or other conduct which adversely affects working conditions or work performance. Discrimination and Harassment include Sexual Harassment.
Bullying and Harassment means any inappropriate conduct or comment by a person towards another person that the first person knew or reasonably ought to have known would cause the second person to be humiliated or intimidated, but with respect to employees, volunteers and appointees excludes any reasonable action taken by a manager relating to management and/or direction, or the place of employment. Although bullying and harassment typically refer to a series of incidents, a single serious incident may constitute bullying and harassment.
Bullying and Harassment means any inappropriate behaviour (conduct or comment) by a person towards a Staff member, which the person knew or ought reasonably to have known would cause the Staff member to be humiliated or intimidated. Harassment may take different forms, including discriminatory harassment, sexual harassment, and personal harassment. Bullying and Harassment can include: