Civil Servants

12. Relations with colleagues

Civil servants should show due respect for their colleagues at work, including their values and beliefs. Civil servants should ensure that their behaviour towards other colleagues is appropriate in the workplace. Civil servants have a legal duty not to discriminate against colleagues on the basis of their gender, race, sexual orientation, membership of the traveller community, disability, age, marital status, family status and religious belief. Civil servants should support a positive working environment by observing and supporting the Civil Service policy on harassment, sexual harassment and bullying.

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3 The Civil Service Employee Assistance Service is available to help staff manage personal difficulties which, if left, might adversely affect their work performance and/or attendance and their quality of life.

4 “De minimis” use of departmental resources, i.e. a use that results in no actual cost to the State, or the cost to the State is so small as to be insignificant or negligible, is permitted.

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