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Enforced by: EHRC
Status: Amended (in force with amendments)
Penalty ceiling: Regulated

Does it bind you?

Business-side roles with duties under this instrument.

Employer1

Other Acts binding the same actors

If a role above is yours, these are the other instruments that most often bind it.

Employer — also bound by 701 other Acts

The Income Tax (Pay As You Earn) Regulations 2003 241 duties

Provision and Use of Work Equipment Regulations 1998 120 duties

TULRCA 1992 72 duties

Income Tax (Earnings and Pensions) Act 2003 54 duties

Employment Rights (Northern Ireland) Order 1996 53 duties

What it requires

Sections creating concrete business duties or carrying penalties, grouped as the instrument is structured. Titles link to the source text — blue means you’re leaving for legislation.gov.uk.

s.001 Employer duty to prevent sexual harassment of employees Regulated

Take reasonable steps to prevent sexual harassment of employeesEmployer

4 other provisions — procedural and definitional

s.002 Enforcement of duty to prevent sexual harassment of employees

s.003 Sexual harassment of employees: compensation uplift

s.004 Consequential amendments to the Equality Act 2006

s.005 Extent, commencement and short title

Help complying

Guvnor’s practical routes through this instrument.

Responding to a harassment complaint

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Understanding the Employment Rights Act 2025

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2 more guides that reference this instrument

Prevent workplace harassment Health and safety for retail premises

Duty extraction and severity labels are Guvnor’s analysis of the instrument, not the instrument itself. Always verify against the linked source text.