Doctors are being given insufficient protection against sexual harassment by third parties under new employment legislation, a trade union has said.
The Hospital Consultants and Specialists Association (HCSA), which represents hospital doctors, said the Worker Protection (Amendment of Equality Act 2010) Act 2023, which comes into force on 26 October, should be tightened up.
The act places a new preventive duty on employers, who must take “reasonable steps” to safeguard employees against sexual harassment.1
But HCSA said doctors who are sexually harassed by a patient could find it hard to make a claim …
