The proposed duty was that employers should protect workers from harassment by customers, clients and other third parties, by taking ‘all reasonable steps’ to prevent it.
It seems that this duty has been dropped as the new laws reach their final stages of approval by Parliament. If so, employers’ current liabilities for third party harassment of employees by third parties will continue unchanged – ie an employer will remain liable only if it ignores employee complaints about third party harassment.
Operative date
- Now
Recommendation
- Employers should put plans to amend processes, policies and procedures to take the proposed new rules into account on hold.
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