Gender discrimination against women in the workforce may have been more prevalent fifty years ago but that does not mean that it is a thing of the past. In fact, 22% of Canadians admit to being discriminated against at work based on their gender. This can include: Assuming a woman will not be as committed…
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It’s no secret that the job market has tightened across Alberta (and all of Canada). This may be especially intimating to graduating students. For many of them, they entered into programs years ago, expecting to graduate and easily find work in a province that is generally booming in it. However, there is now some…
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Maybe you were teased as a child. Perhaps as you grew up and waded through your awkward teenage years, you were ridiculed. But at long last, you have graduated high school and put those troubled years behind you. Perhaps not. Workplace bullying is now a growing problem for many industries, leaving professional adults feeling hurt and hassled, frightened and forgotten.
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The obvious problems here are that we are not giving honest answers. This is no better than stuttering into silence and giving no answer. What can make this process better? The best answer to that is in the questions themselves!
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Workplace harassment can take a variety of forms; it can include bullying, innuendos, displaying personal images or offensive materials, or making threatening phone calls. In short, it is behaviour conducted in a workplace against an employee that is known to be unwanted behaviour.
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