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On 4 September 2023, NHS England launched its first ever sexual safety charter. Signatories commit to taking and enforcing a zero-tolerance approach to any unwanted, inappropriate and/or harmful sexual behaviours within the workplace, and to ten core principles and actions to help achieve this.
https://www.england.nhs.uk/long-read/sexual-safety-in-healthcare-organisational-charter/
Clear “Zero Tolerance” charters, policies and procedures coupled with regular update training for managers and staff on what sexual harassment looks like and how to respond to it are essential for all businesses.
The NHS charter is an excellent example of what all businesses and organisations show have in place.
Concrew Training’s courses on preventing sexual harassment at work can be adapted to train staff at all levels.
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“Failure to use BCC correctly in emails is one of the top data breaches reported to us every year” say the ICO.
The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has today issued a warning to organisations to use alternatives to the blind carbon copy (BCC) email function when sending emails containing sensitive personal information.
Read the full ICO publication HERE
“The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) is producing guidance on biometric data and biometric technologies.
The first phase of this guidance (draft biometric data guidance) is now published for public consultation.
The second phase of this guidance (biometric classification and data protection) will include a call for evidence early next year.
The draft biometric data guidance explains how data protection law applies when you use biometric data in biometric recognition systems.
The ICO consultation will run from 18 August to 20 October 2023.”
The above extract is from the ICO website for more information
Ian Hirst
20 August 2023
Thousands of workers at Fuller’s will receive training to prevent sexual harassment, following a legal case supported by the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC).
As part of the settlement, Fuller’s has apologised to the employee and agreed to implement mandatory sexual harassment training for kitchen and front of house staffacross their national network of pubs.
read more about this on the EHRC website
This case coupled with the issues at MacDonald’s illustrates why all employers need to consider sexual harassment for all staff as mandatory.
HR and operational teams need to ensure robust “not here” policies are in place and that they have the skills and knowledge to deal with issues, robustly, when the they arise.
Our courses can help.
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Norfolk and Suffolk Constabularies have announced a data breach relating to responses for Freedom of Information (FOI) requests for crime statistics, issued between April 2021 and March 2022.
The ICO initial response highlights the importance pf having robust measures in place to protect personal information
A number of people have been safeguarded after being identified as potential victims of modern slavery, and a further 18 arrested, as part of ongoing activity to tackle exploitation in South Yorkshire.”
Yesterday (2 August), working in partnership with HMRC, the Yorkshire and Humberside Regional Organised Crime Unit, the Government Agency Intelligence Network, the Immigration Service, the Department for Work and Pensions, the Gangmasters and Labour Abuse Authority, South Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Service and local environmental health teams, officers carried out a targeted day of action under Operation Duxford.”
South Yorkshire Police
Read the fully story HERE
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From The EQHC web site:
“We are concerned to hear of these new allegations of sexual and racial harassment.
“We will look at them closely in the context of our current legal agreement with McDonald’s to tackle sexual harassment of staff in its restaurants.
“McDonald’s has made a number of legally binding commitments to us that we will monitor, including:
“Under the Equality Act 2010, employers are legally responsible if an employee is sexually harassed at work by another employee, if the employer has not taken all possible steps to prevent it from happening.”
Baroness Kishwer Falkner, Chairwoman of the Equality and Human Rights Commission said:
“There should be zero tolerance of sexual harassment in every organisation. I’m concerned at these new reports of harassment at McDonald’s, where we have an existing legal agreement in place to ensure their restaurants are safe places to work.
“McDonald’s have committed to make improvements to set an example for others to follow, in the hospitality industry and elsewhere.
“Every employer, no matter how big or small, is responsible for protecting its workforce. We’re determined to continue to crack down on illegal harassment at places of work.”
The government is proposing a variety of changes to employment law in its policy paper“Smarter Regulation to Grow the Economy”.
These will it claims “cut red tape for businesses and save £1 billion per year while safeguarding the rights of workers”.
Announcing the “smarter regulation” proposals, business and trade secretary Kemi Badenoch said:
“I have listened to the concerns of businesses of all sizes and have made it a priority to tackle the red tape that holds back UK firms, reduces their competitiveness in global markets and hampers their growth.”
The paper published on Wednesday (10 May), proposes to:
Additionally, the government revealed plans to scrap the controversial sunset clause in its Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Bill, which would have automatically deleted every EU lawwhich hadn’t already been reviewed by the government at the end of 2023.
The Government now says it will “amend [the bill]to be clear which laws we intend to revoke at the end of this year”, it went on to say “This will also provide certainty to business by making clear which regulations will be removed from our statute book.”
