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  Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Bill - New Clause 12 - Equality Act 2010: Third Party Harassment of Employees and Applicants
  
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  @ MP voted no in favour of continuing to consider an employer guilty of harassment if their employee was harassed in the course of their work.
  
  @ MP voted aye to remove a provision making an employer guilty of harassment if their employee was harassed in the course of their work.
  
  
  The majority of MPs voted to remove a provision making an employer guilty of harassment if their employee was harassed in the course of their work.
  
  The new clause approved in this vote was:
  
  :âIn [http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2010/15/section/40 section 40 of the Equality Act 2010] (employees and applicants: harassment) omit subsections (2) to (4).â
  
  
  The effect of this was to remove provisions on "third party harassment" which meant that an employee who was harassed in the course of their employment was treated, for the purpose of the Equalities Act, as having been harassed by their employer. The provision only applied if the employer knew about the harassment but had not taken reasonable steps to prevent it,
  
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