ANTI-VIOLENCE AND HARASSMENT POLICY

Introduction

Respect for all is a guideline for company policy and helps to maintain the values and ethics of GreenFence. In absolute compliance with articles 9 and 10 of Law 4808/2021, regarding the elimination of violence and harassment in the workplace, the company adopts this policy.

Definitions

Violence and harassment: These are acts, behaviors or practices that aim at physical, psychological, sexual, or financial harm. Such behaviors may occur either individually or continuously.
Harassment: Harassment means forms of behavior that offend the dignity of the individual and create an intimidating, hostile, humiliating and aggressive environment. These behaviors also include harassment based on gender or for other reasons of discrimination.
Harassment based on gender: Harassment behaviors related to a person's gender and intended to violate the dignity of that person. These forms of behavior include the sexual harassment of Law 3896/2010, as well as forms of behavior linked to the sexual orientation, expression, identity, or gender characteristics of the person.
Incidents of violence and harassment: An incident of violence and harassment may consist of the following acts but not limited to actual or threatened violence, intimidation, verbal violence, threats, offensive comments, derogatory comments, acts of retaliation, sexual comments, jokes, gestures, immoral comments.
Workplace: A workplace is a wider spatial context in which incidents of violence and harassment can take place. Workplace is considered any place where the employee provides his work, takes a break or rests. In addition, business trips, places where work-related training takes place as well as places where events directly related to work take place.

Purpose

The purpose of this policy is to create and ensure a work environment that is based on respect and ensures human dignity, while at the same time protecting the individual's right to work in a safe environment, free of incidents of violence and harassment. GreenFence is committed to maintaining such an environment and does not tolerate any such behavior among its employees or associates.

Field of Application

This policy extends to all the company’s staff with a contract of fixed or indefinite duration, full or part-time and to every person who cooperates with it with an independent services contract, with a salaried mandate, with a loan contract, etc.

ΠΟΛΙΤΙΚΗ

The Management of GreenFence, above all, respecting the personality of the individual but also the values it represents throughout its course, adopts this policy, according to which:

Staff are informed and sensitized about the issue of violence and harassment in the workplace. Company personnel know which acts or behaviors constitute incidents of violence and harassment.
The Company's Management has ensured that measures are taken to prevent such incidents, limit them and deal with them.
Open communication with the company's Management and the Compliance Officer in case such an incident is identified and the creation of a sense of security that this report will not lead to acts of retaliation.
Evaluation on a regular basis of the effectiveness of the applied prevention measures.
Designation of the Compliance Officer as a "liaison" person responsible for guiding and informing employees about the prevention and response to violence and harassment at work.
Prohibition of retaliation against the aggrieved and/or complaining person, in accordance with article 13 of Law 4808/2021.
Investigate and investigate complaints impartially and protect the confidentiality and personal data of victims and complainants.

Every employee against whom any incident of violence and harassment occurred must report the incident and report it to the Compliance Officer who is also designated as “contact person”. The complaint can be submitted in person or Officer by e-mail at compliance@greenfence.gr. The complaint is always made by name and the details of the person complained of should be mentioned as well as the incident(s) that substantiate the prohibited behavior.

The Compliance Officer thoroughly investigates each complaint and collects any information that may constitute evidence of the reported incident. More specifically, he should talk to both the complainant and the person complained of, examine witnesses and, in general, collect sufficient evidence that proves the incident of violence or harassment. Once the investigation is complete, the Compliance Officer submits, with a written report, the results to the Management of GreenFence. The results are announced simultaneously to both the complainant and the complained-of so that both are informed. The investigation and the announcement of its result must be made within a period of three (3) weeks from the date of submission of the complaint by the complainant.

If an incident of violence or harassment has been documented, the Company’s Management will take all the measures provided for by the Labor Regulations. These measures may consist, among others, of the following:

Notice for compliance
Change of job
Termination of contract or termination of cooperation

In case of non-compliance with this policy or for more information contact the Compliance Officer by e-mail at compliance@greenfence.gr or by phone at 22990 42494.