{"id":17807,"date":"2019-12-13T15:00:44","date_gmt":"2019-12-13T20:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.benefitscanada.com\/news\/feds-supporting-initiatives-addressing-workplace-sexual-harassment-in-pei-140235"},"modified":"2019-12-13T15:00:44","modified_gmt":"2019-12-13T20:00:44","slug":"feds-supporting-pei-initiatives-addressing-workplace-sexual-harassment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/2019\/12\/13\/feds-supporting-pei-initiatives-addressing-workplace-sexual-harassment\/","title":{"rendered":"Feds supporting PEI initiatives addressing workplace sexual harassment"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"alignleft clearfix\">\n<div class=\"wp-caption feature-image alignleft\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"316\" height=\"190\" src=\"https:\/\/www.benefitscanada.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Canada_FederalGovernment.png\" class=\"attachment-feature size-feature wp-post-image\" alt title=\"Feds supporting PEI initiatives addressing workplace sexual harassment\"> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"byline\"><span>Staff<\/span>&nbsp;|&nbsp;December 13, 2019<\/p>\n<p>The federal government is giving the Prince Edward Island Human Rights Commission and the Community Legal Information Association of PEI&nbsp;<span class=\"xn-money\">$1.7 million<\/span>&nbsp;over five years for a public awareness campaign&nbsp;on workplace sexual harassment.<\/p>\n<p>The campaign, which will be aimed at employers and employees,&nbsp;will include training designed for employers to support the prevention and identification of sexual harassment in the workplace.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.benefitscanada.com\/news\/government-releases-results-of-workplace-harassment-violence-consultancy-report-129469\">Government releases results of workplace harassment, violence consultation<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe PEI Human Rights Commission is very pleased to receive support from Department of&nbsp;<span class=\"xn-location\">Justice Canada<\/span>&nbsp;to increase our capacity to address sexual harassment in the workplace,\u201d said&nbsp;Brenda J. Picard, executive director of the PEI Human Rights Commission, in a press release. \u201cWe look forward to working with local businesses to design programs of prevention and resolution of situations of sexual harassment in the workplace. Creating and restoring safe and healthy workplaces, free of sexual harassment, is beneficial to all employees and the business itself.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The CLIA of PEI project will provide a free legal advice program for victims of workplace sexual harassment. Alongside the PEI Human Rights Commission, the association will also develop a public legal education campaign for employers and employees.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Community Legal Information Association of PEI has been a reliable source of legal information for Islanders for 35 years,\u201d said&nbsp;<span class=\"xn-person\">Ellen Mullally, e<\/span>xecutive director of CLIA of PEI. \u201cWe are very pleased to partner with the PEI Human Rights Commission and&nbsp;<span class=\"xn-location\">Justice Canada<\/span>&nbsp;to bring practical support to those who have experienced sexual harassment in the workplace.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.benefitscanada.com\/news\/how-metoo-movement-has-changed-way-employment-law-views-harassment-124969\">How #MeToo movement is changing way employment law views harassment<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benefitscanada.com\/news\/feds-supporting-initiatives-addressing-workplace-sexual-harassment-in-pei-140235\">Read the full article at BenefitsCanada.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Staff&nbsp;|&nbsp;December 13, 2019 The federal government is giving the Prince Edward Island Human Rights Commission and the Community Legal Information Association of PEI&nbsp;$1.7 million&nbsp;over five years for a public awareness campaign&nbsp;on workplace sexual harassment.&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17807"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17807"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17807\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}