LEGAL PROTECTION OF WORKERS FROM MORAL HARASSMENT IN THE WORKPLACES: A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF THE UAE LAW AND FRENCH LAW
Keywords:
moral harassment, workplace, criminal protection, civil protection, UAE Penal Code, French Labor LawAbstract
The study tackles the worker’s protection under the purview of criminal and civil laws from harassment in the workplace. The researchers point out that the UAE legislator has not addressed moral harassment in the workplace either in the Penal Law or in the Regulation of Labor Relations. Meanwhile, the French legislator criminalizes moral harassment acts in the French Penal Law and regulates that in the respective labor law. This motivates us to examine this subject with sights set to have this study as a proposal for the UAE legislator to draft provisions that criminalize moral harassment in the workplace. This study provides the punishment prescribed for this crime. It also describes this act in the Labor Law to determine the procedures set to protect the victims from harassment, to empower them to receive fair compensation, and to prevent the employer from harassing workers to push them to abandon work.Downloads
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