I was watching the TV last week and saw an interesting employment case in the States where a young teenage woman was suing her ex-employer, for not protecting her from sexual harassment in the work place. In short, she was working in an environment where the staff were mainly youth and early twenties and the manager/s were only young adults themselves.
The piece went onto talk about how youth and even young adults were still learning appropriate social behaviours in the work place and emphasised the need for employers who hire youth and young adults to have policies in place to protect them from sexual harassment, bullying and inappropriate sexual relationships, which may eventuate from the work place.
Certainly something to think about. We all have policies in place to protect our children but what about our staff? Think about what you are doing to ensure both safety and wellbeing of all employees.
Take a look at these links from the Department of Labour’s website and arm yourself with knowledge.
http://osh.dol.govt.nz/publications/factsheets/bullying.html
http://www.ers.dol.govt.nz/factsheets/youngemployee.html
http://ers.govt.nz/factsheets/employingchildren.html
and for more info look at …
http://osh.dol.govt.nz/order/catalogue/index.shtml#yo
Anastasia
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