Employment Law Update: Duty to Prevent Sexual Harassment

About this event

The duty to take reasonable steps to prevent sexual harassment. A month on – what are employers doing and what should they be doing?

Our Not-for-profit Sector Forum presents an employment law update on the newly introduced duty to prevent sexual harassment.

Delivered by Jamie Meechan, Senior Associate at Burness Paul the session will discuss new employer responsibilities in relation to protecting employees again sexual harassment under the Worker Protection (Amendment of Equality Act 2010) Act 2023.

Speaker:

Jamie Meechan, Senior Associate, Burness Paull LLP

Jamie is a Senior Associate, providing advice on all employment law matters to clients across a range of sectors, including: day-to-day employment advice and HR support, contracts and changes to terms and conditions, discipline and grievance, absence and performance, discrimination, whistleblowing, restructuring and redundancies, TUPE, senior exits, settlement agreements and corporate support. He also regularly represents clients in the Employment Tribunal and has appeared in Tribunals throughout the United Kingdom.

Burness Paull LLP is a full service commercial law firm, with offices in Glasgow, Edinburgh and Aberdeen. Its employment law team is the largest in Scotland, ranked as Tier 1 by Legal 500 and Chambers & Partners, and acts for clients of all sizes throughout the UK and beyond and across a range of sectors.

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