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==What is not considered workplace bullying or harassment?== | ==What is not considered workplace bullying or harassment?== | ||
It is not workplace bullying or harassment when an employer or supervisor: | |||
* expresses differences of opinion | |||
* offers constructive feedback or advice about work-related behaviour | |||
* takes reasonable action to manage a worker’s performance or to assign work | |||
* takes reasonable disciplinary action. | |||
==Examples of workplace bullying and harassment== | |||
These examples show some of the ways that bullying and harassment can happen in the workplace. They do not mention all forms of bullying and harassment. | |||
If someone is bullying and or harassing you, they might use one or more of these behaviours: | |||
* yells at you, insults you, or use other ways to make you afraid | |||
* spreads negative and untrue gossip about you | |||
* makes jokes that are offensive | |||
* refuses to speak to you | |||
* criticizes you constantly | |||
* makes you do something humiliating | |||
* withholds necessary information or deliberately gives you the wrong information | |||
* interferes with your personal belongings or work equipment | |||
* prevents you from doing your work properly | |||
* gives you deadlines that are impossible to meet. | |||
The bully may use these behaviours in person, by phone or online. When it happens online, it is called cyber-bullying. | |||
{{REVIEWED | reviewer = [[People's Law School]], 2014}} | {{REVIEWED | reviewer = [[People's Law School]], 2014}} | ||
