Age harassment definition

Age harassment means harassment because an individual is 40 years of age or older.
Age harassment means any conduct, comment, gesture or contact of an ageist nature that is likely to cause offence, be frightening or humiliate any employee or other person, or that might, on reasonable grounds, be perceived by an employee or person as placing a condition of age ownership, or employment, or an opportunity for training or promotion. The conduct or comment need not be deliberate or conscious and will be assessed according to objective standards of reasonableness.
Age harassment means harassment because an individual

Examples of Age harassment in a sentence

  • Age harassment is persistent, offensive conduct which has the purpose of intimidating, demeaning, and disadvantaging employees in workplace opportunities and conditions based upon age and creating an abusive environment.

Related to Age harassment

  • Harassment means a pattern of unwelcome verbal or physical conduct relating to another person's constitutionally or statutorily protected status that causes, or reasonably should be expected to cause, substantial interference with the other's performance in the school environment; and

  • Sexual harassment means conduct on the basis of sex that satisfies one or more of the following:

  • Discrimination or harassment means discrimination or harassment on the basis of race, color, sex, sexual orientation, religion, ancestry, national origin, or disability.

  • Workplace Harassment means engaging in a course of vexatious comment or conduct against a worker in a workplace that is known or ought reasonably to be known to be unwelcome”. Ref: Occupational Health and

  • Title IX Sexual Harassment means conduct on the basis of sex that satisfies one or more of the following: