A workplace is a place where employees go to work in the pursuit of fulfilling their employment contracts with an employer. It is a place of work. Places of work should be designed to offer an environment of safety and tranquillity to enable employees to remain productive in rendering services to their employer. Notwithstanding the above, the experience continues to show that employees are constantly exposed to a plethora of threats while at work. Certain threats and conduct on the part of an employer or co-employee are inherently capable of culminating in ending an employment relationship.
In terms of the above, there are genuine cases in which an employee is left with only the most brutal alternative, which is to resign from his or her employment due to a prevailing intolerable working environment created by the employer or which the employer tolerates.
...