Facts Employer Responsibility and labor laws

Rights and obligations from the employer and employee perspectives.

If you experience threats, hate, or harassment online in relation to your occupation, your employer should support you in the best possible way. According to the Work Environment Act, employers must do everything necessary to prevent that you, the employee, are exposed to mental or physical illness.

Employee

Employers have the primary responsibility for making sure that you as the employee are comfortable at your workplace. This is not only about physical safety, but also psychological safety. This means that your employer should be aware of everything in your surroundings that can negatively affect your personal and work development.

Employer

As an employer, if you see that people in your organization are being exposed to different types of harassment online, you should react. It is important for you as an employer to establish core values and routines that clearly present how the organization expects colleagues to treat each other, as well as how the organization should respond to cyber hate, internally and externally.

A safe workplace leads to a safer life. Today, the internet is an integrated part of most workplaces. Even if cyber hate is not specifically mentioned in the Work Environment Act, harassment, hate, and threats are, and therefore fall under the employer’s responsibility.

You should also make sure to have some insight in the unofficial cyber rooms where your employees might interact. Cyber hate can happen there too, which can have consequences for the organization.

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