3. Bullying and Harassment

What is Bullying and Harassment?

Bullying and harassment is any behaviour that's intended to humiliate or undermine a person in some way. At work, it's most likely to take one or more of the following forms: ignoring a person and/or excluding them from activities; making verbal insults or banter; horseplay; making baseless accusations; and physical incidents, e.g. accidental pushing.

Harassment is unwanted conduct related to a relevant protected characteristic, which has the purpose or effect of violating an individual's dignity or creating an intimidating, hostile, degrading, humiliating or offensive environment for that individual. A protected characteristic for the purpose of harassment is defined by the Equality Act 2010 and includes age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, race, religion or belief, sexual orientation and conduct of...

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Bullying and harassment is any behaviour that's intended to humiliate or undermine a person in some way. At work, it's most likely to take one or more of the following forms: ignoring a person and/or excluding them from activities; making verbal insults or banter; horseplay; making baseless accusations; and physical incidents, e.g. accidental pushing.

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