FORMER X Factor star Katie Waissel says eight household names have told her they have been victims of sexual abuse and harassment in the showbiz industry. Her revelation comes as she launches a new…

Marines ‘want to protect the chain of command’, she says. ‘They don’t want to protect women’

With the new Worker Protection Act, UK employers need to act to comply with the new law aimed at combating workplace sexual harassment. 

Editorial: Figures obtained by The Independent indicate that sexual misconduct in health and social care has doubled in four years – it is an issue that requires an immediate and thorough remedy

Study shows widespread concern over quality of managers, with 82% of bosses deemed ‘accidental’, having had no formal training

Damning employment tribunal judgment slated Edinburgh Rape Crisis Centre and found its chief executive was behind a ‘heresy hunt’ against a female employee

A consultation on harassment and sexual misconduct suggests students and their universities are divided on what's needed. Sunday Blake and Livia Scott review a new condition of registration

Chapter of Sexual Misconduct in Academia was previously withdrawn after academic claimed he was identified

One in five fail to turn over data to the regulator on time

Companies scramble to prepare for changes that load greater accountability on bosses

An investigation by reveals at least 71 police officers found to have committed gross misconduct who have been granted full anonymity since 2023, including those who have committed sex offences.

The appearance of sector-wide indifference only brings greater risk for individuals and the FE's reputation

The tool, which is aimed to help anonymous reports of discrimination, racism and sexual harassment, allows individuals to ask personally-curated questions for an AI bot to assess and answer.

Judge says male boss’s description of Nicola Hinds, who was pregnant, was ‘dismissive and belittling’

The data paints a worrying picture of regression.

More than one-in-four people are asked by their employers to sign 'non-disclosure agreements'. Eight in ten of these people are women.

Judge Philip Lancaster has been accused by five different women of bullying and sexist behaviour during employment tribunal hearings.

Jayon McKenzie said he was unaware of what he was doing and that the incident ‘felt like a dream’ after a night out in Cyprus

The tool, which is aimed to help anonymous reports of discrimination, racism and sexual harassment, allows individuals to ask personally-curated questions for an AI bot to assess and answer.

I honestly believe this may well prove to be a year of reckoning for any man with a skeleton in his closet related to sexual misdeeds.

A psychiatrist at South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust sexually harassed junior colleagues.

Gary Smith did not realise that meeting with woman who complained about sexual harassment was being taped

Temporary detective sergeant Thomas Harvey - who investigated sexual offences - first sent photos of a man's private parts to a victim 2011 - 2012.

The British actresses have penned an open letter stressing the importance of funding for an independent watchdog to investigate complaints in industries spanning music, film, TV and theater.

Financial services firms have been urged to "take steps now" to protect workers and ensure compliance ahead of the introduction of sexual harassment prevention laws.

The planned law is part of Labour's New Deal for Working People, aimed at strengthening employee rights.

His hand made contact and squeezed tightly, for a second time.

The instinct to err on the side of non-transparency is understandable, but the accused get more protection than the victims, say five experts

Nicola Hinds wins ‘David vs Goliath’ employment case against Mitie after boss portrays her as ‘hormonal’ during pregnancy

The findings were part of a report published by the Alan Turing Institute.

A new act is set to strengthen employers’ obligation to prevent sexual harassment of employees in the workplace.

With just six months to go until the new Worker Protection Act comes into effect, All UK employers need to act quickly to comply with the new law aimed at combating sexual harassment in the workpla...

The tool, which is aimed to help anonymous reports of discrimination, racism and sexual harassment, allows individuals to ask personally-curated questions for an AI bot to assess and answer.

The tool, which is aimed to help anonymous reports of discrimination, racism and sexual harassment, allows individuals to ask personally-curated questions for an AI bot to assess and answer.

College expulsions of students have gone up 50 per cent since the Covid pandemic, new data reveals

Almost three in five women, including Ruth Sparkes, have experienced harassment at work. She's created an app and chatbot to help make the world safer

Damning report says group has experienced violence, abuse and arbitrary detention under ‘effective control’ of UK government

The new Worker Protection Act comes into play in October 2024. This new law is an amendment to the UK Equality Act 2010, it mandates that all employers must have an anti-sexual harassment policy -...

Editorial: A secret review into the treatment of trainee paramedics by the NHS, revealed by The Independent, outlines a depressingly sexist and oppressive culture – one NHS chiefs don’t want the...

Brave cleaner Shirley has waived her anonymity and says it was "horrendous" having to expose the truth when she'd already been through a "traumatic experience". | ITV News Wales

Increase in legal claims could point to failures in companies whose staff sound the alarm

The tool, which is aimed to help anonymous reports of discrimination, racism and sexual harassment, allows individuals to ask personally-curated questions for an AI bot to assess and answer.

Snapchat Inc. will pay $15 million to settle a lawsuit brought by California’s civil rights agency

Mary O’Connor calls for additional ‘guardrails’ after government rejects outright ban on NDAs in sexual harassment cases

She would stroke my hair, run her fingers up and down my back, pretend she was massaging my shoulders or touch my face in full view of everyone in the office.

Gabriela Rodriguez cleaned the offices of Devonshires Solicitors for two years

A female teacher at one of Australia's most prestigious schools was the victim of an attempted blackmail attempt by a male student who demanded she send him nudes.

Accounts published by the defence committee detail abuse of women within the armed forces

The artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot aims to help people report sexual harassment and companies and universities better understand the situation.

AN ex-Army dog handler is suing the MoD for £200,000 over claims she faced two years of sexual harassment and bullying. Stefanie Leyshon, 35, who joined the service in 2011, says her career was bli…

“I felt offended, harassed and degraded in a toxic work environment,” the employee alleged.

During a three-year recruitment of 20,000 officers, police were able to achieve gender parity – but when it came to black women, 'acute discrimination' was clear

The number of pending sexual harassment cases at workplaces in India's largest ESG complaint companies shows a rise of 101 percent in the year ending March 2023, indicating a huge backlog of compla...

The broadcaster has set down guidelines forbidding staff from trading on their ‘celebrity status’

EXCLUSIVE: Louise Crabtree, of Romsey, Hampshire, opened up about the campaign of harassment by company boss Marc Bandemer, revealing she felt as if she was being 'groomed'.

Two complainants broke their silence against 'Officer A' after a series of 'disgraceful sexual innuendos' and a sexual assault

The survey was led by students in Liverpool and other UK universities

The landmark verdict comes after a 24-year-old soldier went public with accusations against her ex-colleagues.

Dwight Pile-Gray, an ex-guardsman, says a colleague doubted he was a soldier due to his appearance.