Sexual harassment in the workplace is an increasingly common phenomenon among employees, which through its actions affects both the person in question and the image of the company they work for. Beyond the consequences of labor law, the seriousness of the harassment acts required its regulation in the criminal sphere, which is criminalized in the Criminal Code as a crime in its own right. Harassment, regardless of its form, is related to a fu...

In the Republic of Moldova, the constitutional right to labor protection is also safeguarded by penal means, as art. 183 of the Criminal Code incriminates the act of violating labor protection rules. The criminal norm, a basis, must be analyzed in close connection with the provisions of the Labor Code, of Law no. 186-XVI/2008 on occupational safety and health and with other normative acts and regulations applicable in the field. The offense is...