
![]() |
Mark Sennett
Managing Editor |
![]() |
Kelly Rose
Editor |
Home> | Health & Wellbeing | >General Health & Wellbeing | >Call for bosses to have legal duty to prevent sexual harassment |
Home> | Health & Wellbeing | >Stress Management | >Call for bosses to have legal duty to prevent sexual harassment |
Call for bosses to have legal duty to prevent sexual harassment
19 December 2018
THE TRADES Union Congress (TUC) has outlined its belief that employers to have a legal duty to prevent sexual harassment in the workplace

Commenting on the government’s response to the Women and Equalities Select Committee report on sexual harassment, TUC general secretary Frances O’Grady said: “More than half of women in the UK have been sexually harassed at work, yet only one in five reports it. Sexual harassment has a huge impact on women’s careers and lives. So it’s disappointing that the government is not making the major changes needed for the scale of the problem.
“The law should be changed so that employers are responsible for preventing sexual harassment in workplaces. This would shift the burden of tackling sexual harassment away from the victims. And it would help end toxic workplace cultures that silence those who’ve been harassed.
“Unions have been leading the way in tackling sexual harassment. Anyone experiencing sexual harassment at work should join a union to make sure they are protected and respected at work.”
- Construction worker dies after falling from tower
- Firm fined for illegally storing baled waste
- Supporting health and social care staff
- BSIF reveals 2022 finalists
- Electrician badly burned in B&M warehouse explosion
- Unregistered gas fitter sentenced for illegal work
- Health board prosecuted after worker breaks back
- HSE checks Covid compliance in Blackburn
- Two companies fined after worker injured
- Worker's back injury after trolley topples over
- Learn to recognise and manage stress
- Dealing with bullying in the workplace
- Stress awards: Deadline
- Lack of adequate stress support
- Stress tops reasons employers seek advice
- Online stress toolkit
- Stress is long-term worry
- One in five sick from stress
- Stress is the UK’s top health and safety concern, say union workplace reps
- Identifying psychosocial risks