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NLJ this week: Bleak times in the City as sex pests & bullies go to work

17 May 2024
Issue: 8071 / Categories: Legal News , Bias , Discrimination , Employment , Human rights , Harassment
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‘Sexism in the City’, a 2024 parliamentary report into the financial services industry, found alarming evidence on the extent of sexual misconduct, harassment and bullying in the workplace

In this week’s NLJ, barrister Guy Micklewright, of 5 St Andrew’s Hill, looks at the ‘truly shocking’ report and considers a variety of proposals to change workplace culture and protect people at work.

Micklewright surveys the ways in which firms can be held to account, and the advantages and disadvantages of each. He laments the fact that enforcing employment rights via the tribunal route is ‘risky and demanding’, placing a high burden on the employee. Could the regulator do more? If so, what and how?

He discusses the recommendations put forward by the report and looks ahead to the coming into force in October 2024 of the Worker Protection Act 2023.

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