Limelight Security and Services Ltd regards sexual harassment as a type of unacceptable misconduct that interferes with a proper employment relationship. Employees have a right to expect that their workplace and working environment will be free of all discrimination or conduct that is harassing, disruptive or coercive. Sexual harassment is strictly prohibited and will result in discipline, with the sanctions ranging up to and including termination.
1. Sexual Harassment Defined
Sexual harassment includes unconsented to verbal, physical, or visual sexually oriented conduct or materials, requests for sexual favours, or sexual advances. This includes anything that is objectionable or offensive to the person exposed to it, and includes, but is not limited to sexual epithets, suggestive or derogatory slurs, gestures or comments, and offensive drawings, pictures, cartoons or posters.
Our policy is based on the legislative definition of sexual harassment. It includes unwelcome sexual advances, requests for sexual favours, and other verbal or physical conduct of a sexual nature that occur under the following conditions;
a. When submission to condition or term of conduct of this nature constitutes either an explicit or implicit employment (such as when it impacts promotion, training, timekeeping or overtime assignments).
b. When submission to or rejection of the conduct is utilized as a factor in making employment decisions (such as for hiring, promotion, or termination).
c. When the conduct interferes with an individual’s work performance or results in a hostile, intimidating, or offensive work environment.
Sexual harassment may also involve employee conduct that interferes unreasonably with another employee’s work performance through the creation of a hostile, intimidating, or offensive workplace environment. Sexual harassment includes any behaviour by employeesaimed at other employees including, but not limited to, explicit or subtle pressure for sexual activity, touching or language of an inappropriate nature, asking for or demanding sexual favours, or physical assault.
2. What is excluded from the definition of sexual harassment?
Sexual harassment does not include socially acceptable occasional remarks or compliments or common friendly terms of greeting. It only encompasses unwelcome behaviour, and that which interferes with work effectiveness by decreasing morale or being personally offensive.
3. Non-Employee Harassment
Our company tries to protect all employees from harassment by customers, vendors and other non-employees that they come into contact with.
4. Procedure for Complaints
Employees who believe that they have been subject to sexual harassment should report it right away to the company director or any other supervisory personnel. Employees are encouraged to make such reports in writing to create a record, but verbal complaints are also