12 December 2024

Ministry reveals details of changes to bullying laws

The Ministry of Family, Labour and Social Policy is working on a draft of amendments to Labour Code provisions on bullying.

According to a Ministry press communique,

  • the definition of bullying is to be simpler; its basic feature is to be the persistent harassment of an employee; the new definition will make the determination of bullying independent of the intentionality of a perpetrator's actions or the occurrence of a specific effect, and will exclude incidental and one-time behaviour,
  • employers will have to specify rules against bullying and discrimination in work regulations,
  • employers will have to take preventive measures, detect and respond to bullying and support victims,
  • employers are to be exempt from civil liability if the perpetrator of bullying was not the employee's supervisor and appropriate preventive measures were implemented,
  • compensation for bullying will be increased to six times the monthly salary.

The date of publication of the draft law is not yet known.