What is Workplace Sexual Harassment?
Workplace Sexual Harassment is any act of a sexual nature carried out without consent within a workplace setting or circumstance. Workplace Sexual Harassment is rooted in systems of oppression and is often used to control or gain power over others. This results in much higher rates of harassment for workers who face structural barriers and inequities in society.
What is Consent at Work?
Creating a culture of Consent at Work helps create safer work environments where Workplace Sexual Harassment is unwelcome and less likely to go ignored. It’s time to set a new workplace standard across Manitoba to create a safer, more level playing field where every voice at work carries some real weight.
Through a partnership with MFL Occupational Health Centre and Klinic Community Health, we are pleased to offer free virtual workplace training on Creating a Culture of Consent in the Workplace. This session is ideal for all sectors (including private, government, corporate, business, and NGOs). It is designed for all employees (including frontline workers, leadership, HR professionals, etc.) at a workplace to participate in together. We believe everyone within a workplace influences its culture and that it is critical to do this work together.
We encourage anyone within a workplace to reach out to us for more information. Whether you’d like to present this opportunity to a manager or you’re in a position where you make decisions about the training the employees at your workplace receive, we’re here to help.
We understand that some folks won’t be able to bring us into their workplace, but we are still very interested in learning more about creating a culture of Consent at Work. For this reason, we offer occasional public sessions (listed below). These sessions are also cost-free and open to any and all workers.
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The Consent at Work Project will be ending March 31, 2024. We would like to thank Justice Canada for funding this project, and the dedicated workers across Manitoba for their contributions to workplaces safer from workplace sexual harassment.
The Consent at Work Project will continue to provide:
- Help in navigating workplace sexual harassment support via 204-784-4049 and wsh@klinic.mb.ca
- consentatwork.ca will remain live until December 2024 including workplace sexual harassment support information and digital resources
The three organizations who collaborated on this project continually grow their training offerings in accordance with funding acquisition, so we advise to always keep us on your radar when seeking professional development opportunities related to worker health, all of which we work to regularly advertise on our social media platforms, websites, and newsletters.
- Occupational Health Centre: Workplace Education and Services
- Sexuality Education Resource Centre: ONGOING Learning Hub: Sexuality Education with Service Providers
- Klinic Community Health: Education Training and Volunteers
Our community partner in this project, Community Legal Education Association will also continue to provide:
- Their own workplace training re: Workplace Sexual Harassment
- Legal Information via their Law Phone-In and Lawyer Referral Program
- Workplace Sexual Harassment FAQs re: employer and worker rights, responsibilities and legislation
And remember, if you’re unsure whether to use the language “sexual assault”, or “workplace sexual harassment” to describe an experience you want support in working through, this line belongs to you, too.
Sexual Assault Crisis Line (24/7)
In Winnipeg: (204) 786-8631
Toll Free in Manitoba: 1-888-292-7565
Klinic Community Health’s Sexual Assault Crisis Program
Believe Workers.
To learn more about this project and access its full resources, visit consentatwork.ca
Past Training click to view Consent at Work sessions
Creating a Culture of Consent at Work (Public Virtual Session)
Learn how practicing Consent at Work can contribute to your workplace culture’s foundation of trust, respect, and safety from the harms of workplace sexual harassment.
This virtual workshop was delivered to participants from all levels within any workplace and cover additional topics including bystander interventions, supporting disclosures, and navigating the resources available to Manitobans who’ve experienced workplace sexual harassment.
Workplace Sexual Harassment: Building Legal Awareness and a Culture of Consent at Work (Virtual)
Our project, Consent at Work, has collaborated with the Community Legal Education Association to bring you a cost-free virtual afternoon workshop jam-packed with information and tools to address workplace sexual harassment in Manitoba.
With the combined perspectives of community health and legal education, we work through important questions like:
- What is workplace sexual harassment and how prevalent is it in today’s climate?
- How can I contribute to a workplace culture where sexual harassment is not tolerated?
- What is consent and how can it be centered in building safer, more respectful workplaces?
- What are the rights of employees and the responsibilities of employers defined by employment law in Manitoba?
- What support and resources are available to those who have experienced workplace sexual harassment?
To enhance the richness and dimension of these critical conversations, participants from any industry or position at their workplace are invited to this participatory session.
Creating a Culture of Consent at Work (In-Person)
3-part series
Workplace sexual harassment is a harmful pattern of behaviour that negatively impacts individual staff as well as larger workplace units and teams. Over the course of three evenings, we break down our project’s full session where participants will identify and discuss the underlying issues that may lead to harmful workplace sexual harassment and, develop a practical lens and understanding of what ‘Consent at Work’ can mean in and for your workplace. Participants will also leave with learning effective skills for bystander intervention, how to better support staff who have disclosed experiences of workplace sexual harassment as well as information about how to navigate the local resource map of support available for Manitobans. Snacks and breaks are provided.
Creating a Culture of Consent at Work (Virtual)
4-part series
Workplace sexual harassment is a harmful pattern of behaviour that negatively impacts individual staff as well as larger workplace units and teams. During this participatory afternoon participants will identify and discuss the underlying issues that may lead to harmful workplace sexual harassment and, develop a practical lens and understanding of what ‘Consent at Work’ can mean in and for your workplace. Participants will also leave with learning effective skills for bystander intervention, how to better support staff who have disclosed experiences of workplace sexual harassment as well as information about how to navigate the local resource map of support available for Manitobans.
Creating a Culture of Consent at Work (Public Virtual Session)
Learn how practicing Consent at Work can contribute to your workplace culture’s foundation of trust, respect, and safety from the harms of workplace sexual harassment.
This virtual workshop was delivered to participants from all levels within any workplace and cover additional topics including bystander interventions, supporting disclosures, and navigating the resources available to Manitobans who’ve experienced workplace sexual harassment.
Workplace Sexual Harassment: Building Legal Awareness and a Culture of Consent at Work (Virtual)
Our project, Consent at Work, has collaborated with the Community Legal Education Association to bring you a cost-free virtual afternoon workshop jam-packed with information and tools to address workplace sexual harassment in Manitoba.
With the combined perspectives of community health and legal education, we work through important questions like:
- What is workplace sexual harassment and how prevalent is it in today’s climate?
- How can I contribute to a workplace culture where sexual harassment is not tolerated?
- What is consent and how can it be centered in building safer, more respectful workplaces?
- What are the rights of employees and the responsibilities of employers defined by employment law in Manitoba?
- What support and resources are available to those who have experienced workplace sexual harassment?
To enhance the richness and dimension of these critical conversations, participants from any industry or position at their workplace are invited to this participatory session.
Creating a Culture of Consent at Work (In-Person)
3-part series
Workplace sexual harassment is a harmful pattern of behaviour that negatively impacts individual staff as well as larger workplace units and teams. Over the course of three evenings, we break down our project’s full session where participants will identify and discuss the underlying issues that may lead to harmful workplace sexual harassment and, develop a practical lens and understanding of what ‘Consent at Work’ can mean in and for your workplace. Participants will also leave with learning effective skills for bystander intervention, how to better support staff who have disclosed experiences of workplace sexual harassment as well as information about how to navigate the local resource map of support available for Manitobans. Snacks and breaks are provided.
Creating a Culture of Consent at Work (Virtual)
4-part series
Workplace sexual harassment is a harmful pattern of behaviour that negatively impacts individual staff as well as larger workplace units and teams. During this participatory afternoon participants will identify and discuss the underlying issues that may lead to harmful workplace sexual harassment and, develop a practical lens and understanding of what ‘Consent at Work’ can mean in and for your workplace. Participants will also leave with learning effective skills for bystander intervention, how to better support staff who have disclosed experiences of workplace sexual harassment as well as information about how to navigate the local resource map of support available for Manitobans.