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.

Main Image:harassment – later accusation, belated accusation, many years later by valeriy osipov used under CC BY 4.0