50% of workers in the public sector were subjected to harassment

The report showed that 50% of women who work in the public sector were subject to verbal and physical harassment, according to the declared cases.

National Secretary in charge of the association’s files, Houari Kaddour, described the phenomenon of harassment against the working women as “another kind of terrorism” which the community refuses to raise the curtain on it, because of the reticence of the victims and not contacting for the crime fearing the scandal, and because of the influence of employers, what makes complaints a dead letter.

“What happened to the working woman in the context of professional integration in the Municipality of Kais, in Khenchela province (eastern Algeria), is the drop which elaborated the cup, where she was subject to harassment by the General-Secretary and submitted a complaint to the Chairman of the People’s Municipal Council, but it was met by firing her from work on last June, 8 unfairly.”

“Phenomenon of sexual harassment against working women has become a nightmare that stands in the face of the ambitions of many women and hampers their professional careers, and even threatens their private and social lives.”

Same report asserted that the current law, despite the criminalization of harassment, however, it contains several gaps that make it insufficient, like the lack of protection for the witness by the legal article before the court, what makes the law unable to protect the Algerian women in the workplace and unable to deter practitioners of harassment.