{"id":132461,"date":"2026-02-27T16:03:05","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T16:03:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/court-of-appeal-rules-explicit-whatsapp-messages-constitute-sexual-harassment\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T16:03:05","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T16:03:05","slug":"court-of-appeal-rules-explicit-whatsapp-messages-constitute-sexual-harassment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/court-of-appeal-rules-explicit-whatsapp-messages-constitute-sexual-harassment\/","title":{"rendered":"Court of Appeal Rules Explicit WhatsApp Messages Constitute Sexual Harassment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NAIROBI, Kenya Feb 27 \u2013 The Court of Appeal has ruled that sending explicit messages to a colleague\u2019s WhatsApp account amounts to sexual harassment.<\/p>\n<p>The case arose after an employee sued her former employer, alleging that she received sexually explicit texts from the company\u2019s Chief Executive Officer (CEO). <\/p>\n<p>The appellate court upheld that such messages create a hostile work environment and fall under the definition of sexual harassment under Kenyan law.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NAIROBI, Kenya Feb 27 \u2013 The Court of Appeal has ruled that sending explicit messages to a colleague\u2019s WhatsApp account amounts to sexual harassment. The case arose after an employee sued her former employer, alleging that she received sexually explicit texts from the company\u2019s Chief Executive Officer (CEO). The appellate court upheld that such messages [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-132461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132461\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}