Women’s rights groups and trade unions write to business secretary over worker protection bill

Women’s rights groups and trade unions have written to Kemi Badenoch to plead for her not to scrap the new worker protection bill, saying the new laws are badly needed to tackle “endemic” sexual harassment in the workplace.

The Fawcett Society and Pregnant Then Screwed were among the groups to call on the business secretary not to allow the legislation to time out, after it became a rare example of a private members bill to win government backing.

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