Unlawful Harassment Prevention for U.K. Organisations
This highly interactive and provocative course challenges employees by requiring them to engage in 75 interactions, exercises and decision-making scenarios regarding real-life workplace harassment situations. This course covers the laws and legislation of the United Kingdom regarding harassment and discrimination in the workplace. The course utilizes British English.
Course Topics
- Introduction to unlawful harassment, the protected categories & emerging categories.
- The critical distinction between “harassment” & “unlawful harassment."
- The legal standards & interactive exercises that show how they operate in the real world.
- Workplace discussions about an individual’s appearance & medical condition.
- The dangers of discussing mental & emotional conditions.
- The difference between rude behavior & unlawful harassment.
- How vulgar language can be unlawful harassment.
- Examples of how an employer’s policies apply off-site, even at work-related parties.
- How jokes about a coworker’s failure to drink alcohol could be unlawful.
- Workplace dating & professional boundaries.
- Inappropriate behavior of a religious nature & religious rights in the workplace.
- Workplace birthday celebrations & age-related issues.
- How comments about weight could be unlawful harassment.
- Language & national origin issues.
- Pregnancy & related medical conditions.