KansalaisuuskurssiGlossary · Chapter 6: Equality
häirintä
Finnish word. In English: harassment
Behaviour that violates a person's dignity and creates a degrading, humiliating, threatening or hostile atmosphere.
Facts about the word
- Harassment is discrimination when it is linked to, for example, a person's origin, religion or disability. Yhdenvertaisuuslaki 14 §
- Under the Equality Act, sexual harassment and harassment based on sex are discrimination. Tasa-arvolaki 7 §
- If an employer learns about harassment and does nothing to remove it, the employer is discriminating. Tasa-arvolaki 8 d §
The facts come from public sources, such as the authorities' own pages and the law.
Try the word in a sentence
Only one of the sentences uses the word correctly. Which one?
Harassment is banned for everyone, managers included. It is not a recipe.
The word belongs to Chapter 6: Equality and gender equality. The chapter page has the full context and practice questions.
