do you ever Think about how you greet your colleagues when you meet into work in the morning?
an unnamed manager it was not strange to start the day with the comment ‘good morning creampie’.
It tells of Martin Rasmussen, who is forbundsnæstformand in the union HK.
In a post in the A4, the Working environment, he writes, that HP currently leads to a case in which a newly hired in a company feels aggrieved, after the boss’s ‘good morning’ was followed by ‘pussies’.
today we know that sexual harassment includes everything from physical to verbal abuse. We also have a judges word that a company is obliged to ensure that there is a proper tone at the workplace. It means that it is the company’s responsibility, when the new employees feel slighted when the boss says ‘good morning babes, as seen in a case HP leads, writes Martin Rasmussen.
the Extra Leaf has been in contact with forbundsnæstformanden. He will not go into details in the case of the boss, who said ‘good morning creampie’, but confirms that the incident took place in a Danish company.
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Although several details in the above mentioned case is still inconclusive, it is clear that there has been a marked increase in cases of sexual harassment among fagforbundets members.
In the aftermath of the #Meto-movement, in which well-known women stood back and talked about episodes of sexual violations, asked HP to its members, whether they had experienced comments, sent pictures or got probing questions.
It answered more than every fourth member yes.
– Here we were in HK a feeling that the problem was far greater than we went and thought, says Martin Rasmussen to Ekstra Bladet.
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currently, HP 10 legal cases on sexual harassment, there is raised the last year. This is more cases than have been the past 10 years in HK. The cases is about everything from rape, touches, crude comments and hand-drawn penises, it says in the post.
in addition to the 10 current cases receiving HP every week inquiries from the departments of events that concerns about sexual harassment, but that does not necessarily become a case.
– We have chosen to rearm and recruit an additional lawyer who works solely with sexual harassment for our members. And the targeted efforts show that the more focus you put on the cases, the more come forward, says Martin Rasmussen to Ekstra Bladet.
