UNIONS must push to strengthen the Worker Protection Act for all workers, the TUC women’s conference heard in Bournemouth today.The 2024 Act calls for “reasonable steps” to prevent sexual harassment at work, but it contains several gaps, a motion approved by delegates warned.As well as a lack of clarity on what are “reasonable steps,” the legislation also fails to cover racial and other forms of intersectional sexual harassment, it said.

UNIONS must push to strengthen the Worker Protection Act for all workers, the TUC women’s conference heard in Bournemouth today.

The 2024 Act calls for “reasonable steps” to prevent sexual harassment at work, but it contains several gaps, a motion approved by delegates warned.

As well as a lack of clarity on what are “reasonable steps,” the legislation also fails to cover racial and other forms of intersectional sexual harassment, it said.

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