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Most workplace sex harassment cases fail as Tories drag feet over reforms

Four years on from damning report, government has failed to bring forward promised legislation to protect workers from predatory colleagues

By Adam Bychawski and Lou Ferreira
Most workplace sex harassment cases fail as Tories drag feet over reforms
Women and equalities minister Liz Truss promised reform last year but it has yet to materialise. | Joshua Bratt / Alamy Stock Photo
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Just 23 tribunal cases involving allegations of workplace sexual harassment in the whole of 2021 were successful, openDemocracy can reveal.

The findings come as the government has been accused of dragging its feet on reforms four years after a damning select committee report found sexual harassment is “widespread and commonplace” in workplaces.

The Conservative Party is also facing calls to investigate its own internal culture after a senior female Tory MP said the party was “institutional sexist” and a cabinet minister said that she had been sexually assulated by a colleague in the past.

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