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POSTER: AWU Members Say No To Workplace Harassment

01-03-2008

AWU MEMBERS SAY NO TO WORKPLACE HARASSMENT

Do you believe that you’re being harassed at work?

Are you being subjected to behaviour, other than sexual harassment that is:

- Repeated, unwelcome and unsolicited?
- You consider being offensive, intimidating, humiliating or threatening?

Workplace harassment can take many forms from subtle intimidation to obvious aggressive tactics. Some behaviour includes:

- abusing a person loudly, usually when others are present

- repeated threats of dismissal or other severe punishment for no reason

- constant ridicule and being put down

- leaving offensive messages on email or the telephone

- sabotaging a person’s work, for example, by deliberately withholding or supplying incorrect information, hiding documents or equipment, not passing on messages and getting a person into trouble in other ways

- maliciously excluding and isolating a person from workplace activities

- persistent and unjustified criticisms, often about petty, irrelevant or insignificant matters

- humiliating a person through gestures, sarcasm, criticism and insults

- spreading gossip or false, malicious rumours about a person with an intent to cause the person harm

If you believe you are being harassed at work contact your local AWU official or local union office today. Not yet a member of the AWU? To join log on to www.awu.org.au

Authorised by W.P Ludwig, The Australian Workers’ Union of Employees, Queensland.

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