Prevention of Sexual Harassment
Prevention is better than cure – take steps to prevent sexual harassment in the workplace
As an employer, you have new responsibilities to prevent Sexual Harassment in the workplace.
The Worker Protection (Amendment of Equality Act 2010) Act 2023 came into effect in October 2024. The legislation places new requirements on employers to take steps in the prevention of sexual harassment in the workplace.
The legislation is very clear on the actions that employers are expected to take in order to prevent sexual harassment at work and the requirement is to take “all reasonable steps”. The emphasis is on “all”. Having a policy or asking employees to undertake some generic training will no longer be sufficient to meet the requirements of the legislation. If you fail to meet your requirements and an employee brings a sexual discrimination claim against you which they win, the employee can be awarded a 25% uplift on any award they receive. It’s worth remembering that sexual discrimination awards are already uncapped so this could become very expensive very quickly.
Financial repercussions aside, you will want to know that you’ve done all you can to prevent sexual harassment in the workplace and the legislation provides a useful framework against which you can take action.
We offer consulting services to help you ensure that you understand your obligations and have the right policies, processes and training in place to meet them.
Support Options for
Preventing Sexual Harassment
Risk Assessment, Policy Pack & Consultancy
The new legislation requires you to undertake a risk assessment for your business, develop a ‘Preventing Sexual Harassment’ policy that speaks specifically to those risks and train your employees not only on generic preventing sexual harassment but also on the risks that are specific to your business. We can offer services that support all of this.
Risk Assessment and Policy Pack
If you’re confident that you know how to conduct the risk assessment and create the policy and just want a starting point to move you past the ‘blank sheet of paper’ stage, then we have some documentation that you can purchase from us.
Key Service Features
for Preventing Sexual Harassment for HR
Template documents that you can use as a starting point to undertake your risk assessment and create your policy
Consultancy support if you want a helping hand in undertaking your risk assessment
Consultancy support to develop and deliver training that is specific to your organisation
Support with dealing with incidents of sexual harassment if the worst happens
Need help to deal with implementing the changes to Sexual Harassment legislation?
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If you have further questions, call us on 0203 319 1649 and we can go through the options available to you.