Page "Sexual harassment" Paragraph 81

Until May 4, 2012, article 222-33 of the French Criminal Code described sexual harassment as, " The fact of harassing anyone in order to obtain favors of a sexual nature ...".

Since 2002, it recognized the possibility of sexual harassment between co-workers and not only by supervisors.

On May 4, 2012, the http :// www. conseil-constitutionnel. fr ( French supreme Court ) quashed the definition of the criminal code as being too vague.

The 2012 decision resulted from a law on priority preliminary rulings on the issue of constitutionality.

As a consequence to this decision, all pending procedures before criminal courts are cancelled.

Several feminists NGO, such as AFVT criticized this decision.

A new law should be voted rapidly according to the declarations of the President François Hollande, the Minister of Justice ( Christine Taubira ) and the Minister of Equality ( Najat Belkacem ).

In addition to criminal provisions, the French labor code also prohibits sexual harassment.

The legislator voted a law in 2008 that copied the 2002 / 73 / EC Directive definition without modifying the French Labour Code.