Bullying and harassment should be treated seriously in Mauritius. There isn’t a law that directly condemns bullying in Mauritius. However, there is The Workers’ rights Act 2019 Section 114 that addresses bullying at work.
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The Workplace Bullying Institute (WBI) defines workplace bullying as
“repeated, health-harming mistreatment by one or more employees of an employee: abusive conduct that takes the form of verbal abuse; or behaviors perceived as threatening, intimidating, or humiliating; work sabotage; or in some combination of the above.”
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In the early years of my career as an educator in the mid 2000’s, there were very few cases of bullying at my school. However, as the years went by, I noticed that bullying cases were on the rise. The management did their best to deal with the bullying cases and would regularly talk about being kind and fair during morning assemblies.
When we think of bullying, we think of it as obvious ill-treatment which can be witnessed when it happens. However, bullying can also occur in a much less obvious manner.
The Victoria (Australia) Department of Education and Training provides a definition for both overt and covert bullying. Bullying can be easy to see and detect (overt) or hidden, subtle and hard to detect (covert).
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The Victoria (Australia) Department of Education and Training State Government website offers a nationally agreed definition of bullying used by all Australian schools:
Bullying is an ongoing and deliberate misuse of power in relationships through repeated verbal, physical and/or social behaviour that intends to cause physical, social and/or psychological harm.
