Nuisance @ Workplace

July 18 was the last day for me to complete a mandatory training on ‘Preventing Workplace Harassment’ and that too of 2.5 hours (obvsly at Deloitte ;-)). While going through the training I doubted, do we actually need to do this training?? Do other firms have this compulsory training?? That reminded me of an article, I read few days back, something about a good-looking (sexy) female employee being sued from a MNC. The reason being her dressing style, which according to the officials was sexually distracting. I thought of google-ing something around the same and I caught the article on the roster. It was of Debrahlee Lorenzana, a 5'5“, slim-n-trim, attractive brunette. So attractive, that her employer had to fire her for being `too distracting' for her male colleagues. C’mon, WTF!!! Is it her predicament if the male doles are not able to control their feelings or concentrate on work or whatever. The brawl begin sometime back when she sued her bosses at Citibank for creating a “discriminatory atmosphere“ at the workplace.
Does that mean that the women need to be behenjis at work?? Or the dress code for women needs a transform??
Do the companies have a sexual harassment act in place??
A recent survey suggests, more than 52% of Indian Private companies lack any kind of act or policy against sexual harassment. However, all the MNCs have a strict policy and a training plan in hand to tackle workplace harassment. It implies that the Indian private companies seriously need to act before it’s too late.
Nevertheless, there are always two sides to every story. A survey reveals that the harassment policies are biased towards women, favoring them 80% and around 40% women colleagues take undue advantage of the act as well!! Now, it all depends on the women how they dress up at the workplace and help in creating a healthy environment.;-)