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.

Comprehensive and practical

This comprehensive text is written primarily for executives, business managers, HR professionals, educators, employment lawyers, and in-house counsel. It covers the most common sexual harassment issues as well as providing insight on sexual harassment in the electronic age, issues related to social media and best practices for addressing a claim or a potential claim, and their public relations consequences. It also provides in-depth commentary on the legislation and case law related to this important topic.

Written in an accessible and straightforward question and answer format, this text offers useful information on the most common issues that executives, employers, office managers and educators face, and leads readers through best practices in identifying and managing sexual harassment complaints. It also discusses the essentials that are relevant to providing training and implementing policies that may eliminate sexual harassment and the subsequent complaints from arising in the workplace and our schools.

This book is an easy-to-navigate, one-stop resource for understanding and preventing sexual harassment in Canada, and specifically provides: