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The International Journal of Human Resource Management

Victims and HR departments often don’t know how to react when employees cross the line. Emma Wright, outreach manager at ROAR, explains how to respond to – and prevent – sexual harassment in the workplace.

Safe Work Australia has amended the model Work Health and Safety (WHS) Regulations and published a new model code of practice to make duties in relation to psychosocial hazards clearer and help duty holders comply with these duties.

The pandemic has created what the UN describes as 'a perfect storm' for domestic abuse.

The United Nations (UN) is calling on private sector employers to put in place measures that help prevent domestic abuse and invest resources that better protect and support employees who are victims of domestic abuse.

A quarter of young women say they would be reluctant to report sexual harassment at work for fear of losing their job, a study has found.

Three men from a Romanian organised crime group have been sentenced to 28 years’ in prison for modern slavery offences. 

A new joint campaign urging the UK government to introduce a law to prevent sexual harassment in the workplace has been launched by an alliance of unions, women’s rights organisations and the Trades Union Congress (TUC).

Fifty-five local authorities have committed to reducing safety and health risks to construction workers by signing up to Unite the union’s Construction Charter. 

An independent report into staff wellbeing at Amnesty International has called on the human rights champion to help managers improve their relational and communication skills, emotional intelligence and ability to manage conflict after the working environment was described as often “toxic”.