Employers must protect workers from sexual harassment under new bill

Angela Rayner: ‘These packages are pro-business and pro-worker, and we’ve worked with businesses – big, small, medium – all over the country.’ Photograph: Chris Furlong/PA

Employers must protect their workers from sexual harassment – including from customers and clients – under the government’s sweeping new employment rights bill.

The new obligation is part of a series of measures published in Thursday’s landmark employment rights bill, which Labour had promised to lay before parliament within 100 days.