"Still Silent?" - Scottish Trades Union Congress Report on Sexual Harassment

That the Parliament notes the findings of the Scottish Trades Union Congress (STUC) report, Still Silent?: STUC Women’s Committee Survey of Women in Scotland’s Experiences of Sexual Harassment; believes that the report shows an increase in the amount of sexual harassment experienced by women online, in addition to previous findings from the STUC showing that more than 50% of women had experienced harassment within the workplace; strongly condemns what it believes to be the rising level of sexual harassment both within and outwith the workplace; supports the STUC's view that sexual harassment has become "endemic"; welcomes the UK Worker Protection (Amendment of Equality Act 2010) Act 2023, which places a statutory duty on employers to take reasonable steps to prevent sexual harassment of their workers, but believes that this Act should be enhanced and built upon; implores both the Scottish and UK governments to take seriously what it considers to be their duty to protect workers from abuse, and pledges to work with them, employers, trade unions and others to ensure that workers, and predominantly women workers, do not suffer in silence as a result of sexual harassment both in and out of the workplace.