lawyer<\/a> to get a formal opinion on whether this behavior crosses the line.<\/p>\nNevertheless, the obligation to provide a workplace free from harassment requires the employer to take your complaints seriously, do an investigation and take positive action.\u00a0 It does not matter if the alleged harassment came from management or it was the doing of coworkers, contractors or even customers.<\/p>\n
Your facts indicate that not only did the employer fail to address the unwelcome behavior, they ignored it, the behavior persisted and it impacted your health to the extent that you were forced to resign.\u00a0 This may be considered a constructive dismissal as you were forced to leave gainful employment because of a poisoned working environment and if so, you will be awarded damages while you look for another job and possibly additional damages as a result of the employer\u2019s failure to take your complaints seriously.<\/p>\n
\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I have been harassed by three of my co-workers in my workplace for one year. The harassment has come to an extreme where I could not take it anymore. As … <\/p>\n
Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":239786,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[50],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nQ&A of Workplace Harassment | Whitten & Lublin Employment Lawyers<\/title>\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\t \n\t \n\t \n \n \n \n\t \n\t \n\t \n","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Q&A of Workplace Harassment | Whitten & Lublin Employment Lawyers","description":"I have been harassed by three of my co-workers in my workplace for one year. The harassment has come to an extreme where I could not take it any...","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/toronto-employmentlawyer.com\/blog\/harassment-and-bullying\/qa-workplace-harassment\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Q&A: Workplace Harassment","og_description":"I have been harassed by three of my co-workers in my workplace for one year. The harassment has come to an extreme where I could not take it any...","og_url":"https:\/\/toronto-employmentlawyer.com\/blog\/harassment-and-bullying\/qa-workplace-harassment\/","og_site_name":"Whitten & Lublin","article_published_time":"2015-04-06T16:19:47+00:00","article_modified_time":"2023-12-01T16:56:04+00:00","og_image":[{"width":"1550","height":"783","url":"https:\/\/toronto-employmentlawyer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/default-featured-image.jpeg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"Whitten Lublin","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Whitten Lublin","Est. reading time":"2 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/toronto-employmentlawyer.com\/blog\/harassment-and-bullying\/qa-workplace-harassment\/","url":"https:\/\/toronto-employmentlawyer.com\/blog\/harassment-and-bullying\/qa-workplace-harassment\/","name":"Q&A of Workplace Harassment | Whitten & Lublin Employment Lawyers","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/toronto-employmentlawyer.com\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/toronto-employmentlawyer.com\/blog\/harassment-and-bullying\/qa-workplace-harassment\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/toronto-employmentlawyer.com\/blog\/harassment-and-bullying\/qa-workplace-harassment\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/toronto-employmentlawyer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/default-featured-image.jpeg","datePublished":"2015-04-06T16:19:47+00:00","dateModified":"2023-12-01T16:56:04+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/toronto-employmentlawyer.com\/#\/schema\/person\/5c64cf56cabafad9ac1254bf145246cf"},"description":"I have been harassed by three of my co-workers in my workplace for one year. The harassment has come to an extreme where I could not take it any...","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/toronto-employmentlawyer.com\/blog\/harassment-and-bullying\/qa-workplace-harassment\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/toronto-employmentlawyer.com\/blog\/harassment-and-bullying\/qa-workplace-harassment\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/toronto-employmentlawyer.com\/blog\/harassment-and-bullying\/qa-workplace-harassment\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/toronto-employmentlawyer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/default-featured-image.jpeg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/toronto-employmentlawyer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/default-featured-image.jpeg","width":"1550","height":"783"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/toronto-employmentlawyer.com\/blog\/harassment-and-bullying\/qa-workplace-harassment\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/toronto-employmentlawyer.com\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Q&A: Workplace Harassment"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/toronto-employmentlawyer.com\/#website","url":"https:\/\/toronto-employmentlawyer.com\/","name":"Whitten & Lublin","description":"Toronto Employment Lawyers","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/toronto-employmentlawyer.com\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/toronto-employmentlawyer.com\/#\/schema\/person\/5c64cf56cabafad9ac1254bf145246cf","name":"Whitten Lublin","url":"https:\/\/toronto-employmentlawyer.com\/blog\/author\/whitten-and-lublin\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toronto-employmentlawyer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27362"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/toronto-employmentlawyer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/toronto-employmentlawyer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toronto-employmentlawyer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toronto-employmentlawyer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27362"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/toronto-employmentlawyer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27362\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":247994,"href":"https:\/\/toronto-employmentlawyer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27362\/revisions\/247994"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toronto-employmentlawyer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/239786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toronto-employmentlawyer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toronto-employmentlawyer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toronto-employmentlawyer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}