Depends what its for and where its at.
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It’s really easy to google ‘definition of harrassment’.
Citizens Advice often have some useful things.
The Equality Act 2010 protects you from harassment at work by your employer or colleagues. It includes things like abusive or threatening comments, jokes or behaviour.
If you’ve experienced harassment at work, you may be able to do something about it.
Read this page to find out more about harassment at work.
_ When is something harassment? _
Harassment is unwanted or unwelcome behaviour which is meant to or has the effect of either:
- violating your dignity, or
- creating an intimidating, hostile, degrading, humiliating or offensive environment.
It doesn’t have to be directed at you - for example, if your colleagues make jokes or comments to each other within your earshot. Bullying can be unlawful harassment under the Equality Act.
Unwanted behaviour could be:
- spoken or written words
- threats or abuse
- offensive emails, tweets or comments on social networking sites
- physical behaviour including physical gestures and facial expressions
- jokes, teasing and pranks.
Harassment is a form of unlawful discrimination under the Equality Act. If you’ve been unlawfully harassed, you can take action under the Act.
If you’ve been harassed but it’s not unlawful discrimination, there may be other things you can do - for example, you can still complain to your employer about it or you may be able to take action under the Protection from Harassment Act 1997.
_ Why did the harassment happen? _
Harassment by someone at work is unlawful discrimination under the Equality Act if it’s because of, or related to :
- age
- disability
- gender reassignment
- race
- religion or belief
- sex
- sexual orientation.
The Equality Act calls these things protected characteristics. Harassment which is because of one of these things is called harassment related to a protected characteristic.
_ What’s meant by sexual harassment? _
Sexual harassment is where the unwanted behaviour is of a sexual nature. Sexual harassment is also unlawful under the Equality Act.
This can include:
- sexual comments or jokes
- physical conduct, including unwelcome sexual advances, touching, sexual assault
- displaying pictures, photos or drawings of a sexual nature
- sending emails with a sexual content.
Hope that helps.
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Well I’m glad that we replaced the murky subjectivity of the word ‘harrassment’ with the measurable and clear metrics of ‘violating your dignity’.
It’s for a female that fits certain requirements(keep searching).
Surely it’s obvious where its at.
My wife works for a massive, national engineering company. They employ a load of graduates every year.
A female engineering graduate was placed on site. She was asked to report her experience for the company magazine.
The blokes on site asked her if she had a boyfriend. If she said yes, she was asked if she fancied a threesome or gangbang. If she said no, it was suggested that she should hook up with one of them.
Not sure what’s she warriors about. Can’t measure it so must be fine, eh Tramps? I’m sure she didn’t feel uncomfortable at all, a 22-year-old woman surrounded by dozens of rufty tufty blokes asking her questions like that.
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Link to the company magazine where she said all this? I’d be interested to hear.
Mr Trampoline thinks he’s the Katie Hopkins of Sotonians.
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For a extraordinarily rich individual, and that is all you are getting.
Hmm. I’m sorry to say it doesn’t therefore sound like a particularly representative example of endemic sexism supposedly rife across mainstream employment in the UK.
Hmm, have you researched this? Where are you’re findings? I would like to see them in a pie chart form.
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If not a pie chart, then any kind of meat based pastry item, sausage roll etc.
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I’ll settle for a pasty tbh 
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Supporting yes, but being led by DCI O P Ensandles
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I believe the reason why so many sadly still believe some behaviours are acceptable is that they assume offence should be some form of democratic scale… eg, if only one person finds something offensive or feels harrassed by a joke or ‘banter’ the they should stop being so sensitive and join in… And there in lies the problem. There needs to be a mind shift and recognition that offence is caused on an individual basis and its not for someone else to tell you what is and is not offensive to you.
Interestingly, I think even closet racists are no longer (mostly) openly tell racist jokes by the office water cooler, yet the same can not be said about sexist or ‘dirty’ jokes within ear shot of folks who they dont really know. Untimately, its about respect. Respecting others and modifying behaviours to ensure they never feel uncomfortable or offended. That is just being a decent person andhas fuck all to do with PC Liberal bollocks despite what some might believe
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It should not need any definition. Most folk of reasonable intelligence ‘know’ when they are causing offence, or making others feel uncomfortable with their behaviour or language… and in addition, it will be different for each individual. It is all very simple, and about respect. Those needing clear 'definitions suggest they are worried about causing offence and not knowing boundaries.
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where exactly have I said that.
Okay, I’ve checked that it’s okay to publicise with Mrs BS. She reckons it’s fine, as it was published on the internal magazine. I’ve now read it and it reads very well. It’s called ‘Not Just Bants’ and is about a female graduate working on site for Network Rail.
What’s really interesting is the range of comments underneath the article - some, mainly blokes saying it is just banter, some women telling her to ‘man up’, some women and men telling her well done for being prepared to tell her experiences and, the worst of the lot, a whole load of blokes whining about how men are harrassed and making it all about them.
You may, or may not be able to access it from this link.
Can’t access it. That is, of course, if it really exists.
This is pretty depressing. Once again not being believed that these things happen on a large scale. It seems to highlight the problem quite well.