Employment and Industrial Relations Act (Cap. 452)
Employment and Industrial Relations Act (Cap. 452), article 29
29. (1) It shall not be lawful for an employer or an employee
to harass another employee or to harass the employer by subject ing
such person to any unwelcome act, request or conduct, including
spoken words, gestures or the production, display or circulation of
written words, pictures or other material, which in respect of that
person is based on sexual discrimination and which could
reasonably be regarded as offensive, humiliating or intimidating to
such person.
(2) It shall not be lawful for an employer or an employee to
sexually harass another employee or the employer (hereinafter i n
this article referred to as "the victim") by:
(a) subjecting the victim to an act of physical intimacy; or
(b) requesting sexual favou rs from the victim; or
(c) subjecting the victim to any act or conduct with sexual
connotations, including spoken words, gestures or the
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production, display or circulation of written words,
pictures or other material where -
(i) the act, request or conduct is unwelcome to the
victim and could reasonably be regarded as
offensive, humiliating or intimidating to the
victim;
(ii) the victim is treated differently, or it could
reasonably be anticipated that the victim could
be so treated, by reason of the victim’s rejection
of or submission to the act, request or conduct.
Violence and
harassment.
Added by:
XI.2026.3.
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