In this article it talks about work harassment. Safe working environment is very important to achieve strong industrial relationship and productive. To achieve such a working environment, it is important to ensure that the workplace is free from all forms of discrimination, including harassment.
Everyone in the workplace can be very vulnerable to various forms of harassment, including sexual harassment and intimidation. Any and all forms of harassment in the workplace will be detrimental to all parties. For workers, it can lead to deterioration of performance, which in turn suppresses the level of productivity and affect the welfare of all workers and their families. Employee turnover rate increases and low productivity have the potential to affect the economic competitiveness of the factories concerned. Harassment in garment factories has been highlighted as raising concerns by international activists and appears on the main headlines in the international media. Violations as well as rumours about various issues of workplace harassment can have a serious impact on the relationship between plant and International buyers are aware of the reputation. That is what concerns us together to create a positive working environment through the prevention of workplace harassment. Nevertheless, reports of harassment in the workplace remains scattered wide. In particular, many cases of workplace harassment that seems to happen in the garment industry. This is probably caused by a variety of reasons, such as the presence of the number of young working women in large numbers, the inexperienced, and come from rural areas under the supervision of a small number men, high levels of production pressure and disciplinary practices nuanced violence.
There are several ways to prevent sexual harassment in the work place, such as:
1. Communication: socialization of the guidelines through, for example, Bipartite Cooperation, Tripartite Cooperation Institution, and a variety
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