Preventing Sexual Harassment in the Workplace Project
PLEAC has received funding from the Department of Justice for the Preventing Sexual Harassment in the Workplace Project. This initiative will help connect PLEI (Public Legal Education Information) organizations across Canada to make workplaces harassment free by providing complainants of workplace sexual harassment with access to legal advice when dealing with workplace sexual harassment, and by increasing public awareness and knowledge about sexual harassment in the workplace.
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Worker’s Resource Centre
- Website:
- https://www.helpwrc.org/
- Email:
- chris@helpwrc.org
- Main Contact:
- Christopher Farness
- Telephone:
- 403-264-8100 x22
This project will create and implement focused workshops and/or materials specific to sexual harassment in the workplace. This program will be an educational tool for dealing with incidents of sexual harassment inclusive of defining what action(s) are considered harassment and referrals to legal resources available to effectively report and create action that leads to accessing justice. In terms of referrals, the project would access current legal community partner as well as a roster of lawyers specializing in employment and/or human rights law, working on a certificate basis.
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Yukon Human Rights Commission
- Website:
- https://yukonhumanrights.ca/
- Email:
- director@yukonhumanrights.ca
- Main Contact:
- Lesley McCullough
- Telephone:
- 867-633-7620
This project will develop and implement a comprehensive territory-wide public legal education and supported service to complainants with regards to workplace sexual harassment in Yukon. The project will develop and deliver public legal education information (with a specific focus on vulnerable populations), deliver a series of in-person and online courses specifically developed for the northern cultural and legal context, and will support an online chatbot to enable anonymous documentation of evidence. The project will provide outreach to remote communities across the territory and bring together stakeholders through bi-annual conference and regional meetings.
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Yukon Legal Services Society Workplace Sexual Harassment Clinic
- Email:
- lmccullough@legalaid.yk.ca
- Main Contact:
- Lesley McCullough
- Telephone:
- 867-393-6219
The Workplace Sexual Harassment Legal Clinic, staffed by a senior lawyer, can provide free and confidential legal advice up to the point of litigation to those who believe they may have been sexually harassed in the workplace, have witnessed or are witnessing harassment. Or wish to ensure that their workplace is a harassment free zone. It is that anticipated that much of the legal advice the Clinic will provide to clients will probably focus on triage: explaining the law in the area of WSH, helping them to determine whether their concern actually constitutes WSH, helping address circumstances which may pose an immediate physical or legal danger and referring them to local resources. Within the Access to Justice mandate however, there may be additional scope to provide legal advice and services that would support a complainant’s litigation either with their own legal counsel or self-represented. In respect of the Clinic’s public education and information mandate we will be working internally and with other partners to prepare materials that can be used and adapted by the public such as draft WSH policies for the workplace, checklists for carrying out a simple investigation of an allegation of WSH, etc. as well as posters and handouts explaining what workplace sexual harassment is.