Does distribution of a company’s papers or brochures suffice as training on preventing sexual harassment?
In implementing training on preventing sexual harassment, it is a good method to create awareness about sexual harassment to company’s managers or employees by distributing company’s papers or brochures. However, such method should be used as a supplementary measure. At the very least, there should be various forms of trainings such as employee seminars, regular meetings, department-level trainings and audiovisual educational trainings. If possible, it is also important to have many dialogue and discussion sessions for sharing and exchange of opinions with one another. Q) As trivial sexual jokes may also be regarded as sexual harassment at work, should employer adopt personnel measures such as department transfer and disciplinary punishment when such harassment occurs? A) There should at least be measures such as light warnings. Even if a verbal or physical conduct of sexual nature appears trivial from a third party’s objective point of view but from the point of view of the victim, it
