Sexual Harassment - Processing A Sexual Harassment Report

Sexual harassment is a growing problem in the country, both in the State institutions as well as at private institutions, which needs intervention at the various levels. The piece on vicarious liability insisted that liability and responsibility for the incident which would have lies with the employer, for having empowered the harasser, and placed them in the position that they abused to commit the harassment.

Of course there is need to ensure that there are processes in place to adequately respond to reported incidents of sexual harassment. There is also a need to ensure that the processes are standardised, and do not do more harm to the survivors. This article looks into the processes.