It is the first international treaty to recognise this, and specifically includes gender-based violence and harassment. The union is calling on the Conservative government to ensure words are rapidly […]
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The UK’s biggest women’s conference convenes in Bournemouth with a packed agenda
What should be a celebration with colleagues can too often turn into an ordeal of innuendo, harassment and even assault
NHS staff including ambulance workers,111 call handlers, porters, nurses and cleaners have been shown pornographic images, offered money for sex and assaulted at work, according to research published by UNISON. In a survey released to coincide with the first day of UNISON’s annual health conference in Brighton, one in ten (10%) healthcare workers reported experiences […]
This is particularly true of younger women, with over half (52%) of polled women aged 18-34 saying they have experienced harassment […]
In a survey released to coincide with the first day of UNISON’s annual health conference in Brighton, one in ten (10%) healthcare workers reported experiences of sexual harassment […]
Christina McAnea will tell national women’s conference that new laws needed to tackle bosses who don’t protect staff
“A workplace culture that tolerates sexual harassment also allows violence to fester. Too many workers have had to put up with appalling behaviour for too long because they felt nothing would be done if […]
Employers must do more to protect staff
‘Sexual harassment is against the law, but the law doesn’t stop it happening‘
“People are often coerced into signing NDAs without realising that this may prevent them from talking about sexual harassment”
The final debates at national conference witnessed passionate debates on sexual harassment in the workplace and raising the profile of disabled members
The month was book-ended by continuing industrial action from Birmingham care workers, who face having their hours and pay cut by a city council trying to save money. As the month […]
UNISON women’s conference hears testimony of an issue which hasn’t gone away but got worse as women experience harassment in workplaces up and down the country
Sexual assault was reported by almost three in ten (29%) of all the health workers who'd experienced sexual harassment. Half (50%) said they had been leered at or been the target of […]