Be prepared for Sexual Harassment Directive

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• Hegarty & Co

The EU is to introduce new provisions to require employers to take
preventative measures against all forms of discrimination, and especially
sexual harassment. The new law, which takes the form of an amended version
of the 1986 EU Equal Treatment Directive, was formally adopted by the
European Council and European Parliament on 18 April 2002 and will come
into effect in 2005.

Under the new provisions, European law will for the first time provide a
legal definition of sexual harassment. Suc... (140 more words)

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