ILO Convention No. 190 Violence and Harassment Convention 2019, Comparison with Thai Laws

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Chanathip Chinanawin

Abstract

This academic article aims to analyze the problem of protection of persons who have been abused. Scope and process of protection from harassment by applying the concepts, theories and legal principles of sexual harassment, labor protection from sexual harassment, standards to protect employees from sexual harassment according to the supreme court judgment, and ILO Convention No. 190 Violence and Harassment Convention 2019 was used in the comparative analysis. The analysis revealed that sexual harassment is an important problem in working society. The International Labor Organization legislate the Convention, No. 190 Violence and Harassment Convention, 2019 was therefore enacted as an international labor standard. In Thailand, the laws protecting sexual harassment differ between private sectors. State enterprises and the government sector should improve the law to be in line with international labor standards according to Convention No. 190.

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Chinanawin, C. (2023). ILO Convention No. 190 Violence and Harassment Convention 2019, Comparison with Thai Laws. Legal State Journal, 1(1), 1–12. retrieved from https://so19.tci-thaijo.org/index.php/LSJ/article/view/2
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References

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International Labour Organization. (2019). Violence and Harassment Convention, 2019 (No. 190). Retrieved from https://www.ilo.org/dyn/normlex/en/f?p=NORMLEXPUB:12100:0::NO::P12100_ILO_CODE:C190

International Labour Organization. (2020). Labour standards. Retrieved from https://www.ilo.org/global/standards/lang--en/index.htm