Member

We know that workplace-specific abuse is not being recorded. Freedom of information responses show that only two police forces reported any cases of workplace sexual harassment at all—just seven cases in an entire year. That is not a credible enforcement pathway. Likewise, the Equality and Human Rights Commission, while an important body, is constrained. It cannot fine; it also does not cover other forms of gender-based violence, such as domestic abuse and stalking, when they spill over into workplaces, as we know that they often do. An automatic investigation of breaches of the prevention duty under the Worker Protection (Amendment of Equality Act 2010) Act 2023 does not take place unless a survivor wins a sexual harassment case.