The Women and Gender Equality Commission (WGEC) is taking the wheel in the fight to end sexual harassment in the workplace and chairperson Indra Chandarpal says in addition to a public education campaign, the commission will be pushing for the establishment of relevant legislation.
During a press conference on Wednesday, Chandarpal said sexual harassment at the workplace is a known issue but one that not many people want to talk about. She stressed that the harassment affects both men and women.
Chandarpal informed that the WGEC has been advised that the Prevention of Discrimination Act 1997 captures issues related to sexual harassment in the workplace. “We have been advised that the… Act of ’97 may very well take care of those issues and we are at the moment trying to see how we can tweak it so that we can collaborate with the government or the
