I'm Giancarlo Enrico S. Pozon, a Wushu instructor, investor and Barrister... That's right, Barrister; I graduated from law school and took the Bar Exams, now I'm waiting for the results. I created this blog to make Philippine Law easy to understand for the average person. It's all about free legal advice. There are many law blogs. But the problem is that many of them are written for lawyers and law students. They use words that can't be understood by ordinary people.
Many lawyers, judges and law students consider themselves as superior to most human beings because of their knowledge of the law. It bothers me since the law is supposed to serve society. Since the law is meant to serve society as a whole, it is important that is must be understood by everybody.
This does not mean that we should all become lawyers. It means that although law is a highly specialized profession, the first duty of everybody in this profession is to make the law understandable to all; that's why all these articles are free legal advice.
Like I said, this blog is about law -but it's for the ordinary people, not the lawyers. It's for the ordinary folk so they will know what is good and bad for them, and that making them aware of the law will help us all improve society as a whole. This is free legal advice for everybody!
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.
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