Employers must review their internal policies to ensure
that they have adequate procedures to prevent sexual harassment in
the workplace and to respond to and manage complaints
appropriately.
Following the recent allegations of sexual assault and
harassment against Hollywood heavyweight Harvey Weinstein,
employers in Australia are seeing a spike in the number of reported
sexual harassment claims in their workplaces.
The scandal
As the number of sexual harassment and assault allegations
continue to increase against Harvey Weinstein, the story has
sparked a wider conversation about the prevalence of sexual
harassment in the workplace.
Outside of Hollywood, reported incidences of sexual harassment
are also on the rise and a survey conducted by the Australian Human
Rights Commission found that 1 in 4 women surveyed had been
sexually harassed at work in the past five years.
