Submission to Inquiry into sexual harassment in Australian workplaces

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Submission to Inquiry into sexual harassment in Australian workplaces

Submission to Inquiry into sexual harassment in Australian workplaces

Women's Health Victoria

Published: 28 February 2019

This submission to the Australian Human Rights Commission Inquiry puts forward evidence-based key principles for effectively addressing and in particular, preventing sexual harassment in the workplace.

The submission outlines the urgent need to:

Invest in integrated strategies for primary prevention, aligned with the national framework, Change the Story – both within workplaces and across the broader community – and build the capacity of employers to prevent sexual harassment by creating gender equitable workplaces;
Strengthen legal obligations on employers to take proactive action to prevent sexual harassment and enhance regulatory powers to enforce these obligations;
Strengthen and expand the range of legal and regulatory levers available for addressing sexual harassment, across anti-discrimination, work health and safety, industrial and gender equality laws;
Build the capability of employers to implement appropriate policies, procedures and supports to empower victims and bystanders to come forward and hold perpetrators to account;
Improve access to information and legal and support services for victim-survivors and resource specialist sexual assault services to provide counselling support.

More information about the Inquiry can be found here.

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Women's Health Victoria (2019) Submission to Inquiry into sexual harassment in Australian workplaces. Women's Health Victoria. Melbourne

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