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IUF/COLSIBA AND CHIQUITA JOINT UNDERSTANDING ON SEXUAL HARASSMENT (Appendix to the IUF/COLSIBA CHIQUITA agreement

Company

CHIQUITA

Date of signature

2013

Signatories

International Union of Food, Agricultural, Hotel, Restaurant, Catering, Tobacco and Allied Workers’ Associations (IUF) General Secretary, Latin-American Coordination of Banana Workers Unions Regional coordinator of the  (COLSIBA, and Senior vice president and corporate responsibility officer at Chiquita.
Key objectives

“Chiquita, IUF and COLSIBA agree to work on developing a joint understanding on sexual harassment, so that this kind of harassment will not be tolerated in the workplace. This joint work includes the creation by mutual agreement of training strategies and sharing of examples of good practice aimed at personnel, for the prevention of sexual harassment situations. “

To that purpose, every workplace must take the necessary measures to ensure that man and women workers have access to information about their rights in the workplace. The measures must take into consideration the laws (and relevant particularities of each country where Chiquita operates). Laws usually constitute minimum and not maximum standards. Where the provisions of law and this agreement address the same subject, the standard which provides the best protection to workers should be applied. “
 

Duration

Not mentioned

Implementation and dissemination

“To that purpose, every workplace must take the necessary measures to ensure that men and women workers have access to information about their rights in the workplace.”

" A sample text that could serve as a guide for collective labor agreements can be found in Annex VII of "Code of practice Safety and health in agriculture" ILO, 2011.

 

Review and monitoring

Not mentioned

Dispute settlement and sanctions

Not mentioned

Related texts

IUF/COLSIBA AND CHIQUITA AGREEMENT ON FREEDOM OF ASSOCIATION, MINIMUM LABOUR STANDARDS AND EMPLOYMENT IN LATIN AMERICAN BANANA OPERATIONS

Main topics

 Sexual harassment 

 

Download:
2013 Chiquita Appendix on Sexual Harassment.pdf