Sexual Harrassment in the Working Place

Seminar paper from the year 2008 in the subject Law - Civil / Private / Industrial / Labour, printed single-sided, grade: 2,6, Stellenbosch Universitiy, 7 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: Sexual harrassment in the workplace is not a new phenomenon but has only attracted intersest forthe past 30 years. Before it was nearly invisible and inaudible.1 Though even today is still oftenconsidered as being a trifling offence. The following examines the status of sexual harrasment inSouth African Law and presents different approaches to a definition of this divers term.