The International Labour Organization Convention No 190 on the elimination of violence and harassment in the world of work (as adopted by the General Conference of the ILO on 21 June 2019) was ratified by Law 4808/2021 and the relevant provisions can be found in Articles 2 to 23 of that Law. The purpose of these provisions is to lay down a coherent and modern framework for preventing, addressing, and combating behaviours of violence and harassment, contributing to the creation of a working environment that, in practice, respects, promotes, and implements the right of every person to a world of work free from violence or harassment.

These protective provisions apply to employees and persons engaged in work in the private sector, regardless of their contractual status, including persons engaged under a contract for services, independent services contract or salaried retainer arrangement, those engaged through third-party service providers, as well as individuals attending training, including interns and apprentices, volunteers, workers whose employment has been terminated, volunteers, jobseekers and job applicants, as well as workers in the informal economy (Article 3, Law 4808/2021).

These protective provisions also apply to employees with a private-law employment relationship in the public sector as defined in Article 14 of Law 4270/2014, and to persons engaged in that sector according to the definitions in Article 3(2) of Law 4808/2021.