The Victorian government will move to restrict the use of non-disclosure agreements to deal with incidents of workplace sexual harassment.
She said non-disclosure agreements were often “misused to silence victims, protect employer reputations, avoid full liability and hide serial offending”. “A workplace that is not free from sexual harassment is not a safe workplace. These reforms will ensure employers understand they have clear occupational health and safety obligations to protect workers from sexual harassment,” she said.
“I’m loath to put a deadline on this kind of work because I am very serious about making sure that we do that detailed analysis of what legislative change could look like, and that there are no unintended consequences as a result of the model that we do finally arrive at,” she said.
mat_dunckley This will mean lower or no payouts for the victims.
mat_dunckley Good. About time. VicGovDH a big silencing issue in regional hospitals.
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