One out of three employees has experienced sexual harassment in the workplace (31.4%).
Violence and harassment in the workplace are widespread phenomena in all countries, including Greece. They affect or can affect everyone, regardless of gender, although certain groups, certain professions or types of work are at greater risk. Various factors can cause or increase the risk of violence and harassment, such as gender and/or sexual orientation, discrimination on one or more grounds prohibited by law, stigma, poor working conditions, informal employment, stress, and work-related exhaustion.
The Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) in Athens, in cooperation with the General Confederation of Greek Workers (GSEE) and the Secretariat for Equality and Individual and Social Rights of the Confederation, agreed to collaborate on the implementation of the project “Sexual Harassment in the Workplace,” coordinated by the FES and the Central European Labor Studies Institute (CELSI). The result of this collaboration is the present report, written by Athina Malagardi, PhD in Labor Law, while the statistical analysis was undertaken by Konstantinos Boukouvalas, Statistical Analyst at INE GSEE.
You can find the National Report on Sexual Harassment at Work here.
