harassing with work

In 2002, within the framework of the law of social modernization, the fight against the sexual harassment was strengthened by the installation of a repressive operative paragraph and the concept of moral harassing made its appearance in our labor regulation.

Juridically, there is sexual harassment when a person subjected to an employee or a candidate at the time of recruitment of the stresses or pressures with a view obtain favors of sexual nature. The victims or witnesses of such acts profit from a protection.

In addition to the sexual harassment, the law also considers moral harassing.
Moral harassing with work always existed, but its legal name is recent. The legislator intervened in January 2002 by introducing the concept of moral harassing into the labor regulation, and his repression in the penal code.
There are thus now texts specifically sanctioning moral harassing with work. It can take various forms (refusal of communication, threats, “put at the wall cupboard”, degrading or humiliating work conditions).

The consequences for the victims can be serious (psychosomatic disorders, depressions, etc).
In right, all the employees undergoing or refusing to undergo intrigues concerned with moral harassing profit from a protection. The people who testify to such intrigues or report them are also protected. But it is necessary for all to determine if the qualification of moral harassing can be implemented indeed.

To know the rules concerning moral harassing and the sexual harassment, consult the syntheses carried out by our lawyers, accessible on line (via our emulator videotex terminal).

 

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Labor current events law

> 07 10 2409:
Proof of moral harassing

The courts dealing with the substance of a case had, until now, a sovereign capacity to appreciate a situation of moral harassing. In other words, the Court of appeal did not control the appreciation of the judges on the pieces of evidence which the parties brought. Today, the High jurisdiction operates a jurisprudential reversal while taking care more of the control of the judges. In the last judgments delivered on the matter, the social room of the Court of appeal distributes the burden of proof of the facts constitutive of harassing between the employee and the employer. It thus belongs to the employee to establish the materiality of the facts that it calls upon. The judges, them, apprehend the whole of these facts and look at if they make it possible to suppose the existence of harassing. In this case, it is allocated to the employer to show on the contrary that these facts do not characterize a situation of moral harassing.


> 40 51 1006:
Responsibility for for the intrigues of moral harassing paid

In a stop of June 26th, 2006, the social Room of the Court of appeal decided that engaged his responsibility for the acts of moral harassing perpetrated by one for his subordinates on the employees. is held towards his employees dune obligation of security of result as regards protection of the health and the security of the workers in , in particular as regards moral harassing, and that of fault of its share cannot of its responsibility.  


> 61 12 2854:
Harassing and negotiated departure

According to a decision of the court of appeal of November 30th, the negotiated rupture of a work contract is null when the employee concluded it under the influence from acts from harassing and violence.


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