Arbo legislation – psychosocial workload
Since 1994, bullying and sexual intimidation are covered by Arbo legislation. This means, that employers are not only obliged to prevent and monitor psychosocial workload, but to take active measures in order to safeguard employees from unwanted behaviour such as sexual intimidation, bullying, aggression and violence, and discrimination.
Algemene Wet Gelijke Behandeling (AWGB)
If an employee is being discriminated based on their religion, faith, political views, race, gender, nationality, sexual inclination, or marital status, they are also protected by the Law “Wet Gelijke Behandeling.”
In such cases, employees can file complaints to the Institute for Human Rights. Of course, as a company, one would rather prevent such escalations, and be able to identify and solve potential problems and claims.