Sexual Harassment Lawyer in Perth
Everyone has a right to feel safe at work. That right is embedded in culture and enshrined in law. If you are the victim of sexual harassment in the workplace, Perth City Legal is on your side.
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Perth City Legal: Experienced, compassionate and dedicated sexual harassment lawyers.
Our team of Perth sexual harassment lawyers are committed to providing professional and personal legal assistance to workers who have suffered from harassment. We understand the physical and emotional toll harassment can take.
Contact Perth’s trusted sexual harassment lawyers to seek justice and the compensation you deserve. You can request a free, confidential consultation to get personalised advice.
Get the compensation you deserve.
Sexual harassment is illegal in Western Australia. No worker should experience discomfort, unwelcome advances, or discrimination based on gender, sexual orientation, race, ability or age.
If you or your co-workers are the victims of bullying, sexual harassment or discrimination, we can help you pursue compensation.
Perth City Legal personal claims lawyers can also support Western Australians experiencing workplace bullying and harassment.
Medical expenses
Lost income
Stress leave
Formal apology
Injunction to stop the incident
What is sexual harassment in the workplace?
Sexual harassment is unwelcome conduct of a sexual nature that offends, humiliates or intimidates. As experienced sexual harassment lawyers, we understand that unwelcome conduct can be subtle and implicit rather than explicit. But make no mistake: sexual harassment is against the law.
No employee should be subjected to sexual harassment in the workplace. Perth City Legal is here to help you seek justice and fair compensation for the harm caused.
Your legal options.
If you are a victim of sexual harassment in a Western Australian workplace, you have several legal options. A range of laws apply where an injury occurs due to physical, psychological, sexual or discriminatory acts in the workplace.
Examples
The Workers’ Compensation and Injury Management Act 1981 (WA).
The Australian Human Rights Commission provided the following examples of sexually harassing behaviour:
- unwelcome touching;
- staring or leering;
- suggestive comments or jokes;
- sexually explicit pictures or posters;
- unwanted invitations to go out on dates;
- requests for sex;
- intrusive questions about a person’s private life or body;
- unnecessary familiarity, such as deliberately brushing up against a person;
- insults or taunts based on sex;
- sexually explicit physical contact; and
- sexually explicit emails or SMS text messages
Examples
The Equal Opportunity Act 1984 (WA).
The Equal Opportunity Commission WA has stated that sexual harassment can take many forms including, but not limited to:
- unwelcome physical touching, hugging or kissing;
- staring or leering at someone or at parts of their body;
- suggestive comments or jokes;
- insults or taunts based on sex;
- sexually explicit pictures, e-mails or text messages; and
- intrusive questions about a person’s private life or body.
Examples
Occupational Safety and Health Act 1984 (OSH Act).
- abusive, insulting or offensive language;
- behaviour or language that frightens, humiliates, belittles or degrades;
- inappropriate comments about a person’s appearance, lifestyle, or their family;
- teasing or regularly making someone the brunt of pranks or practical jokes;
- harmful or offensive initiation practices; and
- physical assault or threats.
Examples
Criminal Code Compilation Act 1913.
- penetration of a person’s body part by the body part of another person’s body part;
- of a body part by another body part (i.e., penal penetration of mouth, anus, vagina);
- penetration of a body part by an object;
- contact with genitalia, breast, buttocks, or other intimate body part; and
- exposure of genitalia, breast, buttocks or other intimate body parts.
Examples
Fair Work Act 2009 (CTH).
- In Amie Mac v Bank of Queensland Limited and Others [2015] FWC 774 the Fair Work Commission indicated that some of the features which might be expected to be found in a course of repeated unreasonable behaviour constituting bullying at work were:“… intimidation, coercion, threats, humiliation, shouting, sarcasm, victimisation, terrorising, singling-out, malicious pranks, physical abuse, verbal abuse, emotional abuse, belittling, bad faith, harassment, conspiracy to harm, ganging-up, isolation, freezing-out, ostracism, innuendo, rumour-mongering, disrespect, mobbing, mocking, victim-blaming and discrimination”.
Examples
Sex Discrimination Act 1984 (CTH).
The Australian Human Rights Commission provided the following examples of sexually harassing behaviour:
- unwelcome touching;
- staring or leering;
- suggestive comments or jokes;
- sexually explicit pictures or posters;
- unwanted invitations to go out on dates;
- requests for sex;
- intrusive questions about a person’s private life or body;
- unnecessary familiarity, such as deliberately brushing up against a person;
- insults or taunts based on sex;
- sexually explicit physical contact; and
- sexually explicit emails or SMS text messages
Get support from Perth’s trusted personal claims lawyers.
Perth City Legal has over 20 years of experience supporting our clients during sexual harassment, bullying and workplace injury claims. We provide practical legal advice and alleviate the stress of making a claim.
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