Harassment and Bullying at Work Prevention Employee Guidance Notes

These Guidance Notes for Employees: Harassment and Bullying at Work provide advice to employees on the informal steps that can be taken to tackle harassment in the workplace and on the steps that can be taken to assist any possible future formal grievance that may arise from the harassment or bullying.

Since October 2024, employers have been legally required to take reasonable steps to prevent sexual harassment of their employees in the course of their employment. Where an employment tribunal upholds a sexual harassment claim against an employer and orders it to pay compensation, the tribunal must consider whether the employer has also breached its duty to prevent sexual harassment and, if it has, may increase the compensation by up to 25%. From 30 October 2026, following the Employment Rights Act 2025, employers must take all reasonable steps to prevent sexual harassment of their employees in the course of their employment, and are also liable for harassment (as defined in the Equality Act 2010, so not only sexual harassment) of their employees by third parties, such as customers or clients, in the course of their employment unless they have taken all reasonable steps to prevent it.

These notes are to be used in conjunction with the Harassment and Bullying Policy and/or the Prevention of Sexual Harassment Policy.  These policies are the key documents, setting out what the company expects from its employees, its commitment to protect them from harassment and bullying and the relevant procedure.  Taken together with these policies, these guidance notes for employees will help employers to demonstrate that they are taking all reasonable steps to prevent harassment in the workplace. 

Also available to download are Employer Harassment & Bullying Guidance Notes.

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