Bailiwick Legal solicitor Matilda Lloyd discussed the new positive duty reform legislation at the recent WA Shearing Industry Association (WASIA) general meeting.
Ms Lloyd said a positive duty was a legal obligation on an employer or person conducting a business or undertaking to take reasonable and proportionate measures to eliminate unlawful behaviours in the context of work, workplaces and working relationships.
In the case of shearing contractors, sheep producers and other primary producers, she said that obligation was on the employer and applied to all staff, workers, contractors, customers and people entering, for example, a shearing shed.
Read the full Farm Weekly article by Brooke Littlewood here: https://www.farmweekly.com.au/story/8512515/what-employers-need-to-know-about-workplace-sexual-harassment-laws/
