Legal stakeholders are calling for a greater work health and safety focus on sexual harassment, according to Job Watch’s submission to the Australian Human Rights Commission’s (AHRC) National Inquiry into Sexual Harassment in Australian Workplaces.
The submission, released 5 July, follows over 400 others from unions, organisations, legal stakeholders, academics and individuals — including Safe Work Australia (SWA), Work Safe Western Australia (Work Safe WA), the National Union of Workers and Not in My Workplace. The submission aimed to shed light on the nature and prevalence of workplace sexual harassment. Such prevalence was revealed in a 2018 national survey on sexual harassment in Australian workplaces, which found that one in three people had experienced sexual harassment at work in the last five years.