Harassment and Workplace Conflict. 19.11 The Company recognizes the right of employees to work in an environment free from harassment. All employees are to treat others with courtesy and respect and to discourage harassment. Violation of this principle as covered by this article may be dealt with by way of disciplinary sanctions up to and including dismissal.
Harassment and Workplace Conflict. The Company recognizes the right of employees to work in an environment free from harassment. All employees are to treat others with courtesy and respect and to discourage harassment. Violation of this principle as covered by this article may be dealt with by way of disciplinary sanctions up to and including dismissal. Harassment is defined as any course of vexatious comment or conduct that is known or ought reasonably to be known to be unwelcome. Harassment creates an intimidating, threatening, coercive, or hostile work environment such that an individual's (a) work performance is impaired; employment relationship is adversely affected, or; dignity is denied. Harassment is not to be construed as properly discharged management responsibilities such as the delegation of assignments, the assessment of discipline or other activities that does not undermine the dignity of the individual. No employee covered by this agreement will be lawfully interfered with, coerced, or discriminated against by the Company, its officers or agents, because of lawful activity on behalf of the Union; or for failure to act upon a directive which is illegal or contrary to any provision of the Collective Agreement. The workplace is defined as any Company facilities and includes areas such as offices, shop floors, rest rooms, cafeterias, lockers, conference rooms, and parking lots. Harassment between employees that occurs outside of the aforementioned areas and which has a substantial impact may also be subject to this policy. Harassment may be further understood as follows: Human Rights Harassment is defined as any course of vexatious comment or conduct that is known or ought reasonably known to be unwelcome based on the protected groups in the Canadian Human Rights Act. Those protected groups (or prohibited grounds of harassment) are as follows: religion, disability (including dependence on alcohol or drugs), age, sex, marital status, sexual orientation, national or ethnic origin and pardoned conviction. Sexual Harassment may be any singular or repeated comment, gesture, contact, or conduct of a sexual nature that ought reasonably to be known to be unwelcome. Sexual harassment targets gender and includes pregnancy and childbirth. Such conduct is usually one sided and may be overt or implicit, and may include: Sexual innuendo (perhaps in the guise of humour) Touching or patting Sexually suggestive remarks or other verbal abuse about gender Demands for sexual favours Leering or compr...
