Sexual Harassment: Penalties and Liabilities

So we've finished with what constitutes sexual harassment. Now let's look at the penalties and other things that attach to it.

Penalty and Prescription

The penalty for sexual harassment is imprisonment for 1 to 6 months and/or a fine of Php10,000 to 20,000. The crime of sexual harassment prescribes in 3 years.

Liabilities

The employer or head of the training/educational institution in question will be made solidarily liable for the sexual harassment; but this liability will become applicable only if he was informed of the violation but did nothing.

The victim is also allowed, as the basics of civil and criminal law are concerned, to file a separate and independent action for damages or other affirmative reliefs.