Worker Protection Act - how to prevent sexual harassment.
Support and solutions to help you protect employees from sexual harassment, and your organisation from risk; creating a genuine speak up culture.
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The enforcement date for new legislation on preventing sexual harassment in the workplace will come into effect on October 26, 2024. After this date, all UK employers face legal action.
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The UK’s Worker Protection Act mandates employers to proactively take reasonable steps to prevent employees from experiencing sexual harassment. This new positive duty marks the biggest change to the Equalities Act in decades.
Labour recently announced its new Employment Rights Bill. Legislation preventing sexual harassment in the workplace will be strengthened under this bill to an obligation to take ‘all’ reasonable steps to prevent sexual harassment. This underscores the need for employers to begin thinking strategically now. -
To meet the positive duty, you'll need to assess and address key areas of your business. This includes aligning leadership, reviewing policies and processes for reporting, monitoring, investigating, resolving issues swiftly & effectively, and fostering a culture where everyone understands sexual harassment and feels safe to speak up.
The legislation is not a tick box exercise—it's about proportionality and taking reasonable steps tailored to your organisation
Understanding the Worker Protection Act
Why we’re uniquely placed to help
How can InChorus help you prepare & prevent sexual harassment in your workplace, today?
We’re workplace behaviour experts bringing significant experience of employment law, high-impact training, data analytics and reporting channels, alongside our strategic partner Byrne Dean
With our partners, Byrne Dean, we offer an end-to-end framework to help you navigate the requirements of the new positive duty - that can scale and adapt to meet the realities of your workplace in a practical, proportionate way.
We support organisations at any level of readiness, whether that’s targeted help in a specific area, or helping you take a holistic approach.
Our goal is to equip you with scalable foundations & tooling so that you can continue to efficiently assess risk, gather data & take action. This will ensure your business is future-proofed.
We’re experts in anonymous reporting channels and how these can be safely and effectively used to speak - we’ve embedded these in thousands of teams.
Our solutions.
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Assess risk
Assessing areas of risk - such as low diversity, working conditions, and areas of high power imbalance is critical to accurately determining where you need to focus efforts to prevent sexual harassment.
Our platform guides clients through a risk assessment and ensures this is a live document: accessible by all key stakeholders, connected to new data insights, and updated with appropriate actions.
Our expert consultants can provide additional support with this.
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Reporting channels & data for prevention
Ensuring effective, accessible speak up channels is critical. We provide prevention focused channels that allow employees to anonymously flag behaviours that would constitute sexual harassment so that you identify patterns and trends in behaviours across your organisation and spot any ‘hot spots’ earlier - allowing for early intervention.
We also provide anonymous and non-anonymous reporting channels and data collection.
Our focus is on ensuring you have proportionate channels to be preventative and on the front foot
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Effective intervention & training
Our partners - Byrne,Dean are experts in delivering interactive, highly impactful training.
We provide Inclusive Leadership workshops to align leaders around the ‘why’ of speak up and importance of preventing sexual harassment. For managers we have developed toolkits and training to upskill managers in leading team discussions and fostering positive culture change. This includes how to have difficult conversations, support direct reports, and appropriate escalation.
For employees we have effective and highly scalable e-learning & bitesized training on Respect at Work - Preventing Sexual Harassment
All training and interventions are evidenced in InChorus’ platform, and data insights enable you to identify the effectiveness of these responses in order to optimise accordingly.
Podcast
Tune in to learn more
Creating safe workplaces: new duties on employers to prevent sexual harassment
The Co-Founder of InChorus, speaks to two experts at our partners Byrne Dean to discuss the new legal and regulatory responsibilities for all employers on preventing sexual harassment at work.
