Parliament has passed new legislation to bring into place seven of the recommendations from the landmark Respect@Work report into sexual harassment, including making employers take proactive steps to end harassment, violence and discrimination in the workplace.
The report, from sex discrimination commissioner Kate Jenkins, was released in early 2020 and included 55 recommendations about what could be done to stamp out sexual harassment in Australian workplaces.
Some of those recommendations were about changing federal laws, and while the previous government passed legislation last year to bring about some of the changes, the new government has now passed more of its own.
