Safe At Work
Safe at Work aims at tackling sexual harassment at the work environment. It is the continuation of the panhellenic research “This is not our work”, (ActionAid Hellas, 2020), according to which 85% of women in Greece have experienced sexual harassment at the workplace and it adopts a holistic approach of the problem, in 5 pillars:
– Legal counseling & representation of the victims/survivors
– Reinforcement of the legal framework in the country, through the application of the International Labor Organization Violence and Harassment Convention, 2019 (No. 190) with proposed policies from empirical data and legal representatives’ trainings.
– Creation of educational material & HR departments as well as employees’ trainings, in the private & public sector
– Research on the perceptions & attitude of men
– Raising awareness regarding sexual harassment at the workplace, with a focus on selected groups pf the population and the general public.
ActionAid Hellas, as the Project Promoter, undertake the management of the program, coordination of the legal activities, the trainings of law students and lawyers, the Digital Resource Center and the policy proposals.
Women on Top, Research Committee of Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences, Greek People Management Association and DataWo, as Partners of the Project, contribute with: the creation of the educational and communications material, the trainings, the provision of legal support to women victims/survivors, conducting research about the perceptions and attitudes of men and the networking with corporations for the prevention and tackling of sexual harassment at the workplace.
The program has received letters of support from the ITUC-International Trade Union Confederation & the General Secretariat General for Demography, Family Policy & Gender Equality of the Greek Ministry of Labour.
