The implementation of the Worker Protection (Amendment of Equality Act 2010) Act 2023 in October, 2024, has introduced significant obligations on all employers when it comes to dealing with sexual harassment in the workplace.
While employers can already be held vicariously liable for acts of sexual harassment carried out by their employees, this legislation goes further and introduces a legal obligation on all employers to take reasonable steps to prevent the sexual harassment of their employees.
Critically, this will apply to all employers, whether they have one worker or 1,000. The only variable will be what ‘reasonable’ looks like, which will partly depend on the employer’s size.
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