The legal threshold varies by jurisdiction, but in general: conduct must be repeated or sufficiently severe, unwelcome, and must affect working conditions. Your employer must have known or should have known about it.
Your employer becomes legally liable the moment they knew or should have known about the hostile conduct and failed to take appropriate corrective action. A formal written complaint triggers this knowledge.
Log every incident in real time
Date, time, location, exact words, witnesses, how it affected you. Email yourself this log from your personal account — creates an external timestamped record.
Identify the pattern
Courts look for patterns. Is it the same person? Same type of behaviour? Getting worse? A documented pattern is far more powerful than isolated incidents.
Send a formal demand letter
Triggers your employer's legal obligation to investigate and act. If they fail to respond — their liability multiplies. WORKWARS generates this in 3 minutes.
Escalate to the relevant authority
CNESST (Quebec), EEOC (USA), Employment Tribunal (UK), Inspection du Travail (France) — WORKWARS identifies the right authority for your jurisdiction.
97 workers across 14 countries have documented their situation via WORKWARS. This report is part of a growing legal signal. You are not alone.
Your case starts now
Document. Report. Demand action. Every day of inaction by your employer strengthens your legal case. Start here — your letter is free in 3 minutes.