[Guide to responding to harassment at the workplace]

1. Harassment is not a normal business:

If an employer or manager causes you mental distress or worsens your working environment in advantage of his/her position, it refers to ‘workplace harassment,’ which is prohibited by law. In any reason, nobody has the right to treat you disrespectfully. 2. These actions are harassment:

• Speaking bad words: habitual profanity, dismissive remarks, acts of humiliating someone in front of others.
• Bullying: Acts of withholding work information, preventing someone from eating together, and treating someone like an invisible person.
• Bad errand: The act of making someone run personal errands unrelated to work or forcing them to do unreasonable tasks they cannot handle.

1. Securing evidence is the most important thing:

• if you are harassed, obtain the evidence right away. You should write down when, where, who, and how such action happened on your diary, record the conversations, and save the contents of text messages; these will be advantageous for your report in the future.

1. Ask for help confidently:

• If your supervisor harasses you, then you report it to your employer and demand to punish him/her.
• If your employer harasses you personally, or if the company does not help you even after you report it, report it to the Ministry of Employment and Labor immediately. If you are dismissed or disadvantaged for such reporting, it is a strictly prohibited crime.

1. It is safe if you take a counteraction together:

• If you are assaulted, do not worry alone but notify it to your friends immediately. It is the most secure and safe way to have a responsive action together with an expert’s assistance by notifying it to a migrant worker support organization or a trade union.