Graphic = Reporter Park Gu-won
“The new boss gives the employees the allowance at will and forces them to do their own housework. To female employees, I regularly make sexual harassment remarks such as,’If I open a bar, wear a skirt and serve.’
This is a case of sexual harassment in the workplace that entered the labor rights organization’Work Gap Jil 119′. As a result of a total survey of 486 reports of sexual harassment in the workplace received by e-mail from November 2017 to October 2020, the majority, 89% (324), said that the perpetrator used a superior position over the victim. Revealed. In particular, 68.7% (250 cases) of sexual harassment were accompanied by bullying in the workplace.
Among the victims, 83.2% (404 cases) were women, and 12.9% (63 cases) were men. In some cases, the sex of the victim was not known. A male office worker complained through an e-mail that “at the dinner table, the female team leader forced him to put something to eat in his mouth.” The majority of the damages accounted for 22% (72 cases).
Nevertheless, victims cannot easily report or raise problems. Among the victims, only 37.4% (136 cases) of sexual harassment were raised or reported. Among those who raised and reported issues, 52.9% (72 cases) suffered’active’ penalties such as bullying, rumors, exclusion, personnel issuance, and dismissal, while 37.5% (51) experienced’passive’ penalties such as ignoring and not handling reports. did.
Ji-young Yoon, a sympathetic lawyer at the Public Interest Human Rights Law Foundation, who participated in the investigation said, “In Korea, sexual harassment is legalized separately from harassment in the workplace. It is analyzed that the reporting rate is low as there are many cases of retaliation rather than improving the working environment after reporting. The victims must be thoroughly protected so that they can report them without worry.”
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