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Harassment prevention needs "laser-like focus"
Employers and workers can "clearly" do more to prevent and respond to workplace sexual harassment, the results of a major survey show.
Some 19% of Australians who had been in the workforce in the past five years have experienced workplace sexual harassment in the past 12 months, the Australian Human Rights Commission has found in its 'Time for Respect' report, its fifth such survey since 2003.
This is up slightly from 18% in the 2018 survey.
"Alarmingly... reporting of workplace sexual harassment continues to be low," says Sex Discrimination Commissioner Kate Jenkins...
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