Sexual harassment in the workplace - A guide for employees

Author/s:	State Secretariat for Economic Affairs SECO, Federal Office for Gender Equality FOGE
Distribution:	BBL Nr. 301.922.e

Sexual harassment in the workplace is indicative of a lack of respect. It infringes a person’s dignity, demotivates the victim and can even make them ill. Although various statutory regulations require employers to ensure it does not occur in their company, sexual or sexist harassment can still take place. This brochure shows what employees can do in such cases and deals specifically with:

• what constitutes sexual harassment and the different forms it can take,
• the possible consequences of sexual harassment,
• what victims of sexual harassment can do if they or their colleagues are subjected to it, 
• what the legal basis is.
  

Sexual harassment in the workplace A guide for employees (PDF, 1 MB, 05.02.2026)