On 11 July, and via the Ten-Minute Rule Bill procedure, Labour MP for York, Rachael Maskell tabled the Bullying and Respect at Work Bill. Several parties are backing this bill that aims to denounce and track down this specific form of harassment at work.
The Equality Act 2010, defines workplace harassment and in it stipulates that it is forbidden to attack a person’s ‘protected characteristics’, namely age, gender, origin, sex, disability, beliefs and religion and sexual orientation. However, there is as yet no legal definition of another form of harassment which in the UK is called ‘workplace bullying’. This form of harassment does not necessarily relate to attacks on the characteristics protected by the Equality Act. For Acas (Advisory, Conci
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