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Tackling and preventing sexual harassment

To effectively challenge sexual harassment, we must challenge the cultures that enable it through practical and proactive action.

Tackling and preventing sexual harassment

Tackling and preventing sexual harassment

Tackling and preventing sexual harassment in all workplaces, including our own, is a priority for the TUC and is key to our aim of growing and diversifying our movement. To effectively challenge sexual harassment, we must challenge the cultures that enable it through practical and proactive action.

Preventing Sexual Harassment

Our toolkit with practical actions for reps to tackle, prevent and respond to sexual harassment in the workplace

TUC research on sexual harassment

TUC latest research on tackling sexual harassment

Unions as employers

Resources and updates to support trade unions to take a proactive approach to tackling and preventing sexual harassment within their own organisations.

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Building preventative cultures - trade union training

The TUC have been working with experts to develop a training course aimed at how to build preventative cultures within the trade union movement.

Resources for tackling sexual harassment

Helpful guides and links for tackling sexual harassment

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Supporting carers in the workplace

This toolkit is designed to help unions ensure that members who are carers - i.e. those combining work and unpaid caring responsibilities - are supported in the workplace.

Black women's experience of sexual harassment in the workplace

The TUC undertook this research in collaboration with Queen Mary University of London in order to create a space for Black women to share their experiences and inform the work we do to tackle sexual harassment in the workplace. As the voice of more than 5.5 million working people, we have an obligation to ensure that our movement is responding to the biggest challenges working people face.

Carol Ferguson - 26 Nov 2024

What is the Worker Protection Act? New preventative duty explained

The Worker Protection Act will come into effect on 26 October 2024. Employers will need to take a proactive and preventative approach to protecting their employees from workplace sexual harassment. Here's everything you need to know about the duty.

Nikki Pound - 23 Oct 2024

General Council Statement on tackling and preventing sexual harassment

Trade unions have played a vital role in highlighting the scale and impact of sexual harassment in the workplace. We have pioneered research on the issue, and led campaigns to change the law, laying the foundations for the culture change that is needed. But like every workplace, we need to get our own house in order.

#ThisIsNotWorking alliance responds to government amendment to the worker protection bill

In this day and age it is unacceptable that at least 40% of women will experience workplace sexual harassment, with that number even higher for disabled women and Black and minoritised women.

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