In a relatively recent judgment of June 11, 2024 (II PSKP 38/23), the Supreme Court once again emphasized the wide range of activities that may be considered mobbing, indicating that they include both active and passive manifestations of harassment:
„The range of activities that may be considered mobbing is very wide in practice, for example, from telling anecdotes and jokes about a selected person to physical aggression. The tools used by a mobber include harassment, deception, trickery, intrigue, slander. Manifestations of moral harassment may take an active form, for example: picking on, gossiping, deliberate misleading, physical violence.
There may also be manifestations of harassment, which will take the form of omission (hence the use of the word „behavior” in the text of the provision), or failure to notify the victim of the impending danger, failure to provide information helpful in performing duties.” According to the Supreme Court’s Labor Chamber, „mobbing may also be expressed in constant interruption of speech, reacting with shouting, constant criticism and admonishment, humiliation, the use of threats, avoiding conversations, not allowing the floor, ridiculing, limiting the possibility of expressing one’s own opinion, informally introducing a ban on conversations with the harassed employee, preventing communication with others, as well as entrusting work below qualifications and degrading, removal from responsible and complex tasks, burdening with work or not giving any tasks or taking them away.”
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