Sexual harassment in Canada : a guide for understanding and prevention

Summary: "Studies and statistics show that sexual harassment in Canada is widespread and persons of all genders and sexual orientations may be targeted. Sexual Harassment in Canada: A Guide for Understanding and Prevention is an essential guide for employment lawyers, employers, employees as well as educators, parents and students across the country to help understand the intricacies and nuances of sexual harassment in order to have a resource not only for developing policies and procedures aimed at reducing the incidence of sexual harassment in the workplace and schools, but also for handling an incident should one arise, including being armed with knowledge on what to expect given the available processes, remedies and legal entitlements and obligations."--pub. desc.

Record details

ISBN: 9780433489757 (pbk.)
Physical Description: print
xxxi, 335 pages ; 23 cm
Publisher: [Toronto] : LexisNexis, 2017.

Content descriptions

General Note:

Includes index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Understanding sexual harassment -- Sexual cyberbullying and cyber sexual harassment -- Nature and extent of sexual harassment -- Same-sex sexual harassment, gender identity and gender expression -- Sexual harassment and the law : generally -- Sexual harassment, bullying and the law : schools -- Sexual harassment and the law : in the Canadian workplace -- Winning the moral case -- Remedies and resources available to survivors -- Alternative remedies available through the courts -- Taking action in the workplace : a predicament for survivors -- Workplace investigations of sexual harassment -- Mediation -- Workplace romances -- Prevention of sexual harassment in the Canadian workplace -- Appendix A : Supports and services available to survivors, witnesses and potential offenders -- Appendix B : Human Rights Commissions across Canada : addresses, phone numbers, email addresses, and websites -- Appendix C : Sample sexual harassment policy -- Appendix D : Summary of Canadian workplace legislation : sexual harassment.