Research
Procedures for Bullying or Harassment Disputes in the Workplace
These procedures should regulate the intervention in workplace bullying or harassment disputes of any kind (whether sexual harassment or bullying) suffered by a person from other people who are working in the same company or workplace or by third parties. We need them because everybody (company and workers) should know how to act quickly and safely when such a kind of conflicts arises, without being necessary to improvise a response before that particularly delicate situation. The purpose of the procedure is to avoid and prevent the risk of harassment or bullying by early detection of the circumstances that can generate it and adopt appropriate preventive and corrective measures. When a bullying behaviour has been verified or has actually occurred, other disciplinary or disputes proceedings have to be approached.
A Handbook on Procedures for Bullying or Harassment Disputes
In this paper we are presenting an executive summary of the “Handbook on Procedures for Bullying or Harassment Disputes†elaborated by the authors within the activities of the Basque Observatory on Bullying, an association composed of different kind of professionals: judges, lawyers, labour inspectors, psychologists and doctors. The content of the Handbook has been recently discussed in the Summer Course organized by the University of the Basque Country in Saint Sebastian (June 27th and 28th, 2013).
