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Sexual Harassment at Workplace: A Need for a Specific Law in Malaysia -…
Sexual Harassment at Workplace: A Need for a Specific Law in Malaysia
Introduction
Sexual harassment is generally defined as an unwanted conduct of a sexual contact
The sexual harassment often occurs within the workplace context
Harassment and bullying share some common features such as a wide range of negative
acts that may cause psychological harm
The sexual harassment is done by men at workplaces as a mean to signal to the women
women are not welcomed and not respected at the workplaces they are attached to
Perception regarding Sexual Harassment
Usually depend on the eyes of the beholder
The sexual harassment has become one of the hot issues that people are giving their time to speak about it
The opinion and impressions of individual countries on sexual harassment are different
The survey also indicates variant
responses of respondents pertaining to the man’s conduct of making a sex joke
Looking at a woman's breast
Putting arm around a woman's waist
Laws Governing Sexual Harassment
International Law
General Assembly Resolution 48/104 on the Deliration of Violence Against Women in 1993
Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition and Redress) Act,
2013
Protection from Harassment Act 1997
Equality Act 2010
Malaysian Law
No specific law governing sexual harassment conduct
There are some applicable acts and code
the Penal Code
(Act 574)
Employment Act 1955
the Code of Practice on the Prevention and Eradication of Sexual Harassment in the Workplace
Conclusion
Multiple countries have their own pieces of legislation to address the sexual harassment
Despite the available laws, they seem to be insufficient as sexual harassment problem require wider basis and scope of enforcement and public awareness