{"id":19777,"date":"2018-12-20T08:00:12","date_gmt":"2018-12-20T08:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ceo-na.com\/?p=19777"},"modified":"2018-12-19T20:14:10","modified_gmt":"2018-12-19T20:14:10","slug":"harassment-in-the-canadian-workplace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/opinion\/harassment-in-the-canadian-workplace\/","title":{"rendered":"Harassment in the Canadian Workplace"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>StatsCan survey shows problem is particularly widespread in healthcare sector. <\/em><\/strong><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>About 19% of Canadian women and 13% of men face harassment in the workplace, with the phenomenon particularly prevalent in healthcare jobs, according to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www150.statcan.gc.ca\/n1\/daily-quotidien\/181217\/dq181217b-eng.htm\">new survey<\/a> by Statistics Canada.<\/p>\n<p>Verbal abuse was the most common form of harassment for both men and women with 13% of women and 10% of men reporting they&#8217;d experienced abuse in the year prior to the survey.<\/p>\n<p>Sexual harassment was most likely to affect women, with 4% saying they had experienced unwanted sexual attention in the workplace, compared to fewer than 1% of men.<\/p>\n<p>Young, unmarried women were most likely to report some form of sexual harassment.<\/p>\n<p>The results, based on Statistics Canada&#8217;s General Social Survey, gathered data in 2016, the year before the social media-led #MeToo movement focused attention on the issue.<\/p>\n<p>The survey conducted from August to December 2016 questioned 19,609 men and women aged 15 to 64, who had worked for pay in the preceding year.<\/p>\n<p>About 53% of women said the harassment came from a client or a customer at work compared with 42% of men.<\/p>\n<p>People working in the healthcare-related jobs experienced the highest levels of harassment, with about 23% reporting they had been harassed in the past year.<\/p>\n<p>In health occupations, including doctors and nurses, 27% of women and 21% of men reported harassment in the past year.<\/p>\n<p>Among men, 39% of those reporting harassment in the Statistics Canada survey said they&#8217;d been harassed by a supervisor or manager, while among women, more\u201434%\u2014said they&#8217;d been harassed by peers or colleagues.<\/p>\n<p>The survey found that being harassed at work was associated with stress, poor mental health and lack of motivation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>StatsCan survey shows problem is particularly widespread in healthcare sector.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":19778,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[98,1385,588,1639,1640],"class_list":["post-19777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-opinion","tag-ceo-north-america","tag-ceo-northam","tag-harassment","tag-harassment-in-the-canadian-workplace","tag-harassment-in-the-workplace"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19777","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19777"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19777\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19779,"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19777\/revisions\/19779"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}