Workplace Discrimination in Canada: Evaluating Racial and Sexual Harassment

This proposal evaluates the problem of workplace discrimination in Canada, specifically focusing on racial and sexual harassment. It discusses the prevalence of harassment in the workplace, the impact it has on employees, and proposes solutions to address the issue.

Introduction
Workplace multi culture is very crucial for running a workplace and Canada is famous for its
multicultural acceptance in the workplace. In Canada, generally social inequality and difference
is easily accepted. Harassment is one type of discrimination that includes rude verbal behavior,
unwanted physical touch that may make feel the person bad. Harassment may happen in the form
of racial discrimination as well. In recent times, it is reported that almost 13% men in Canada are
sexually harassed in their workplace (Canada Labour Relation, 2019). The main purpose of this
proposal is to find a way for this problem of work place discrimination and it is quite evident
that, the problem exists in different forms such as sexual harassment, racial discrimination. In
this proposal, the racial, sexual discrimination in the workplace will be evaluated under a few
headings.
Problem Statement
In Canada, in recent times, it is noted that work place harassment has become a crucial issues
and this harassment in the workplace hampers the job stability of the workers, overall job
satisfaction, job tenure and ultimately the mental and physical well-being of the workers. In the
country, almost 13% of men and 19% of female has reported about their harassment in their
workplace (Godley, 2018). This workplace harassments comprise of threats to person, physical
violence, verbal abusive, unwanted sexual attention and humiliating behavior. The crucial issue
of work place harassment is the racism in the work place in Canada. From a survey, such
information have been extracted that almost 25% of Canadian people had faced the issue of
racism in their workplace since 2005. A recent survey conducted on 1000 Canadians indicated
that almost 59% Arabians and Muslims faced the issue of racism in the work place (Al-Solaylee,

2017). This number is followed by 28% indigenous people and lastly the East Indians and black
Canadians also reported about this problem and the number is almost 23% for both of the group.
Almost 11% Asians had faced the problems (Fleras, 2014). It is observed that, in most of the
cases it is noted that, Muslim people are the main target as a victim in the work place that is
statistics indicated that, in recent times there is almost 253% increase in hate crimes against the
Muslim people in last 4 years (Leber, 2017). The number of hate crimes against Muslims were
45 in 2012 and in 2015 the number of cases were 159. The increase in the hate rate was almost
61% from 2014 to 2015 (Abedi, 2019).
Discussion
As harassment has become one of the most serious issues in the work places of Canada, it is very
important to find some solutions for this problems. As a part of the management of work place
discrimination, a few measures can be taken. There should be a proper anti-harassment policy in
which all the possible work place harassment should be included and through those policies all
the employees should gain adequate knowledge regarding the issue. A few training sessions can
be arranged for the employees in order to raise the awareness among the employees. All the
employees should cooperate in preventing any harassment in their workplace and along with this
they should be responsible to give support to those who are harassed. Immediate actions should
be taken against the person who are engaged in the incidents of harassment (Kim, I. & Noh,
2016). Verbal and as well as physical communication should be entertained by the management
while addressing any issues of harassment in the work place. In addition such issues should be
raised to the HR as the HR cannot be impartial in such matters. In addition, the policies should
be updated with time and those updated policy related information should be conveyed to the
employees so that they also can have the idea about the new policies (Mathew, 2019). As I have

the clear idea about the workplace harassment and I watched various cases of work place
harassment in my previous work place, that is the reason I believe I can conduct the research in a
proper manner.
Summary
Till date, it was observed that most of the cases employees were not at all serious about the
consequences of sexual harassment in the work place. It is observed that after having various
policies regarding harassment in the work places, the prevalence of this incidents has not reduced
yet. At that point of time, it can be suggested that, proper training may improve the situation. In
addition, in order to make the training more attractive by giving rewards after successful
completion and implementation of the training. Weekly awareness program may be launched to
enhance the awareness.
Scope of Research
In this study the data will be collected directly from the employees so that the exact scenario can
be understood. In addition, in this study the data will be collected from the all type of employee
such as Asians, Arabians, Muslim and Black Canadian. However, the research will only show
the overall scenario of work place harassment of the male and female and there will not any
differentiation in the harassment of male and female. The primary limitation of this study that the
researcher will work with the employees of some organization and it is quite possible that they
may mask the real data of work place harassment.
Work Plan
Tasks 1st to 2nd
week
3rd to 6th
week
7th to 13th
week
14th to
17th
week
18th to
21st week
22nd to
23rd
week

Topic
selection 
Collection of
data  
Research
framework
creation
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Review of
Literature  
Data
interpretation
and Analysis
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Data
findings  
Conclusion
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As a part of the possible solution of this problem, training programs should be arranged and for
this two weeks of time periods should be given.
Cost
Activities Cost (Approx.)
Data collection $100
Awareness Program $500
Training of the employees $ 600
All the costs are mentioned approximately in the assignment.
Conclusion
Hence it can be concluded that, the problem of work place discrimination, racism and sexual
harassment are very crucial issues in the work place of Canada. So there are various areas of
improvement as this issue is raising day by day. Therefore it can be said that, with the proposed

solution, the condition may improve and the researcher will be able to address the problem of
work place harassment in Canada.

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