The number of businesses convicted for institutional moral harassment is increasing in Brazil, with 53 convictions until the end of 2012. This is the story told by Adriana Calvo, lawyer and labor law professor at the Getúlio Vargas Foundation (FGV) in Rio, in an interview granted to Planet Labor. She made a list of convictions in Brazil within the framework of her PhD thesis dedicated to this topic, presented last year at the Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo (PUC-SP). They usually follow individual court actions, preventing deterring fines.
- For you, what is the difference between individual, collective and institutional harassment?
Adriana Calvo. Even lawyers and judges get confused, because the notion of harassment is new in Brazil. As with individual harassment, collective moral harassment remains interpersonal. One manager embarrasses one or several employee(s). The difference with institutional moral harassment is that it isn’t included in the company’s culture. Institutional moral harassment is the result of a strategy
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