Workplace harassment: New actions announced to end harassment | Employment | Economy

As time passes and labor market dynamics change, new issues or challenges arise in the daily lives of authorities, as In the past, they were seen as normal, but now, they are no longer tolerated by society and need to be eradicated.

This is what is currently known as workplace harassment, a term These include any type of hostile and systematic behavior that occurs in a work environment, where one person or group of people repeatedly engages in behavior that intimidates, humiliates, or harms coworkers.

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Experts say that this harassment can manifest itself in different forms, such as insults, threats, social isolation, overwork, defamation, and even sabotage of the victim’s work, and that workplace harassment is often aimed at emotionally destabilizing the person affected, which can have serious consequences for your physical and mental health, in addition to affecting your work performance and quality of life.

The prosecutor’s office sounded the alarm

Although this is a relatively new issue on the public agenda, despite the fact that It has been around for years and in Colombia it has become increasingly important in recent years, to the point that control organizations are asking the state and surveillance and control authorities to take action to prevent it from continuing to grow and eradicate it once and for all.

This week, lawyer Margarita Cabello insisted that due to continued evidence and complaints of gender-based violence, including workplace harassment, from public servants in several state entities, a new circular was issued containing guidelines for compliance with legal and regulatory norms to prevent, focus and punish this scourge.

“The circular urges public institutions to fully comply with the provisions of Law No. 1010 of 2006 on the Prevention, Correction and Punishment of Workplace Harassment; see also Law No. 1257 of 2008, For complete protection of women and violence-free life,” the official said.

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Attorney Cabello added that “despite the fact that we have these regulations, some officials still do not understand the application of these measures, which guarantee the right to work in decent conditions and a work environment free from violence and harassment.”

The document also mentions the operation of the Labour Coexistence Committeecompanies and entities have room to deal confidentially with behaviors and cases that arise, either developing improvement plans or, if the problem persists, sending the complaint to the controlling entity (in the case of the public sector).

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“In the face of complaints that may have unjustified delays in handling complaints, the circular urges the Ministry of Labor and the Public Service Administration to review the provisions of the law, indicating in units of days that during this period all stages of the internal review and reconciliation procedures”, stressed the official, who added that she must notify the public sector to initiate disciplinary procedures in the event of irreconcilable behavior such as sexual harassment.

Finally, the document includes a mandate to protect the rights of victims of harassment, specifying that monitoring and control will continue to be carried out to guarantee compliance by state entities with constitutional, legal and regulatory provisions guaranteeing the right to work. decent conditions and enjoy a work environment free from violence and harassment.