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SH0CKING! How S-ex Worker Won Six-figure Settlement In S-exual Harassment Case

Thompson Nsisongabasi

Dec 14, 2020

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A s-ex worker will receive a six-figure payout as part of a settlement in s-exual harassment proceedings against a business owner, BBC reports.

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The terms of the settlement include payment of a six-figure sum to the woman concerned to compensate her for both emotional harm and lost earnings, the human rights commission said on Monday, 14 December.

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All other details, including the identities of those involved, are confidential.

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The worker was represented by the office of human rights proceedings after filing proceedings in the human rights review tribunal.

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"We encourage all business owners and employers to ensure that they understand and respect those rights.

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In an earlier decision by the tribunal, s-ex workers were found to be protected by the human rights act.

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Although they work in an environment where there will be some s-exual language and behaviour, there is a difference between that with a legitimate work purpose and unwelcome or offensive language and behaviour, it found.

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"Context is everything, even in a brothel language with a s-exual dimension can be used inappropriately in suggestive, oppressive or abusive circumstances, the tribunal said.

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"It follows that it is not possible to ask whether a reasonable s-ex worker would find the behaviour unwelcome or offensive.

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"If in a brothel, language or behaviour of a s-exual nature could never be considered unwelcome or offensive, s-ex workers would be denied the protection of the human rights act.

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The special vulnerability of s-ex workers to exploitation and abuse was recognised by the prostitution reform act 2003, which decriminalised prostitution and created a framework to protect the human rights of s-ex workers.

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— Thompson Nsisongabasi

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