Harassment, violence, discrimination in the civil service: a new reporting system

Procedures

The scheme consists of 3 procedures:

• the collection of reports by officials who consider themselves victims or witnesses of the acts or acts in question;
• the referral of these staff to the services and professionals responsible for their support;
• referral to the competent authorities to take appropriate protective measures and deal with reported incidents, including through an administrative inquiry.

The act establishing these procedures shall specify how the reporting person:

• address its alert;
• provide the facts and, where appropriate, the information or documents to support the report (irrespective of their form or medium);
• provide the elements for an exchange with the addressee of the alert.

That act shall also specify the measures to be taken by the administration which received the alert in order to:

• promptly inform the author of the report of receipt and how he will be informed of the action taken;
• ensure strict confidentiality around this report: the identity of the author, the persons targeted and the persons in charge of processing it, as well as the facts themselves.

Information for agents

Each competent authority must inform all its staff of the existence of this alert system and of the arrangements for accessing it.