Member

Leveraging health and safety legal frameworks that are already in place would require employers to actively work towards eliminating gender-based violence. It would establish a structured, systematic and publicly enforceable approach to the prevention of, and the safeguarding of women from, gender-based violence in the workplace. As such, I hope that the Minister will speak with government colleagues and fully consider these amendments as an opportunity to incorporate the prevention of gender-based violence in the workplace within the wider strategy to end violence against women, as I believe it is a necessary step to reach that worthy goal, which I support.