NEW SEXUAL HARASSMENT DUTY OCTOBER 2024 – Two Hour Seminar:
From October 2024, employees are now legally required to take reasonable steps to prevent the sexual harassment of their workers. This includes harassment from third parties.
What does this mean for employers in the future ? 
The new law (Worker Protection – Amendment of the Equality Act 2010) will require you to revisit:
- Your policies in this area. Are they comprehensive and fit for purpose in 2024 ?
- Your people surveys – do they explore the important areas of sexual harassment and victimisation ?
- Line manager knowledge, skills and confidence to recognise and tackle workplace harassment ?
- Your overall culture and values – do they currently overtly acknowledge inclusion ?
- Your workplace risk assessment tools – can they be used to identify where risks of sexual harassment may exist ? Do your tools encourage managers to consider where risks of unwelcomed behaviour may be particularly high ?
- Monitoring and reporting of outcomes.
- The mandatory knowledge and skills training which is provided to all staff.
Here at McKenzie we have spent considerable time dissecting all of the official guidance published in this area as well as drawing upon our own experience of exemplar practice drawn from our partner organisations. We are providing a highly interactive, highly practical and informative event designed for all responsible for ensuring Inclusion and Respect is promoted at work.
Two Hour Virtual Seminar:
On a strictly first come, first served basis we are offering a two hour virtual seminar which will explore in detail:
- What the new duty is and how it can be implemented – both practically and in many cases, simply.
- Practical tools for managers to allow the accurate identification of behaviours, gestures, language, conduct or digital content that risk being perceived as sexual harassment.
- Clear, definitive guidance in respect of what is, and is not, potential sexual harassment.
- Pragmatic guidance – including what to actually say to any employees who are using dated, misogynistic, sexist or other inappropriate words – even if they themselves, consider their behaviour to be ‘banter’.
- Guidance on dealing with inappropriate behaviours that occur out of the workplace and working hours.
- Policy development. What a good modern policy should reference. This includes defining sexism, misogyny, micro aggressions, associative discrimination, transgender/gender identity considerations, third party sexual harassment and informally challenging behaviours.
- Adopting a overarching preventative approach to sexual harassment – a one page quick start tool.
- Best practice approaches to reporting channels/investigation and the development of relevant people survey questions.
- A resources / virtual toolkit to take away from the event including our preventative duty quick start guide, example model policy templates, tools for identifying harassment, practical tips / language for raising issues ‘in the moment’ and example training content.
Seminar Fees: 
£199.00 per person (excluding VAT).
For organisations wishing to book five or more people on the same event, please contact us separately as we may be able to deliver this as a bespoke ‘in house event. If you are an existing McKenzie customer i.e. we have previously invoiced your organisation for McKenzie services, you need to pay nothing as we will invoice you after the event. New customers to McKenzie will need to pay us for each person attending in advance please.
Dates:
Monday 2nd December 2024: Time 10:00 – 12:00
Monday 2nd December 2024 : Time 14:00 – 16:00
Thursday 5th December 2024: Time 10:00 – 12:00
Thursday 5th December 2024 Time: 14:00 – 16:00
To book a place, please e-mail: lucy@mckenzies.co.uk