Sexual Harrassment at Work Place: A Case Study of Sexual Harrassment Against Men Under Employment in Uganda

Abstract

Sexual harassment is a vise at workplaces comprised of a person’s rights and dignity in form of explicit and implicit. Before 2006, there were no legislations to regulate and curb this vise yet it was affecting employees and consequently leading to unemployment after abandonment of opportunities due to failure to accept the advances of the employers. Though article 39 provides for the right to a clean and healthy environment and article 40 of the 1995 constitution of Uganda promoted equality of opportunity in employment as far as recruitment, promotion, remunerations and allowances and termination of employment yet also obliges the parliament to enact legislations in the same sphere, the Ugandan workplace has been polluted with sexual harassment which is identified as a form of discrimination against both genders though earlier on and generally perceived to be against females but has eaten up the system and crossed to the male employees too. Despite the enactment of the Employment Act 2006 and the amendment of 2024, there is still underlying ineffective measures on combating sexual harassment and also the levels of compliance to the laws by the legal authorities, employers, employees amongst other stakeholders is still lacking, whereby in the fight to end the vice, male victims were left as orphans and became prone to the danger of harassment.