'Mobbing' on the Rise Among Workers in Mexico Alberto Valderrabano - The News
go to original February 13, 2015

Hostile or insulting behavior a person suffers from in their workplace, better known as “mobbing” has become an invisible illegal activity, and most of its sufferers are women.

More than 50 percent of Mexican professionals have been the object of work harassment, but there are no adequate complaint mechanisms, so the perpetrators act with impunity, which causes their victims psychological and professional problems.

“Mobbing” is reflected in actions that implicate work and sexual harassment, payment of low salaries, long workdays, threats of firing and even the fabrication of crimes. Harassment cases are recorded every day, but few are reported, mainly because of fear of losing their jobs or suffering some reprisal.

“Offenses against working women are ever more common, no matter the employment rank, and these include belittlement of their performance, allotment of greater work loads, magnifying mistakes, ignoring them or verbally threatening them,” wrote Autonomous Metropolitan University (UAM) anthropologist Florencia Peña Saint Martin said in her book. “When debate punishes us, debate on mobbing in Mexico.”.

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