[Webinar] Preventing Workplace Sexual Harassment: A Social Partners’ Perspective

📅 Date: November 20, from 16:00 to 17:00 (CET)
📍 Location: Online
🎯 Target Audience: Trade union representatives, employee representatives, HR professionals
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On 20 November 2025, from 16:00 to 17:00 (CET), the RE-WIRING project will host an online workshop titled “Preventing Workplace Sexual Harassment: A Social Partners’ Perspective.” Organised under Work Package 4 (WP4) and supported by CEC and the European Trade Union Institute (ETUI), this one-hour interactive session will bring together trade union and employee representatives as well as HR professionals to explore strategies for addressing workplace sexual harassment through the lens of RE-WIRING’s Transformative Equality Approach (TEA).

A Transformative Approach to Change

Building on a previous ETUI training from 2022, this new, shorter workshop offers an action-oriented, scenario-based session focused exclusively on sexual harassment. The session pioneers a Transformative Equality Approach (TEA) to move beyond mere legal compliance, aiming instead for fundamental cultural and structural change in workplaces.

The core objective is to empower union and employee representatives to both proactively prevent sexual harassment and intervene strategically when cases arise.

“Legal frameworks alone are not enough. Protocols are often absent, especially in some Eastern European contexts. This session will offer concrete tools and strategies to create and implement transformative protocols at the workplace.”

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Key Workshop Objectives

The one-hour agenda is designed to deliver immediate, practical value:

• Identify limitations in current workplace procedures and protocols.
• Apply the Transformative Equality Approach (TEA) to real-life harassment cases.
• Empower social partners to become proactive agents for institutional change.
• Share practical tools and strategies developed by RE-WIRING.

Scenario-Based Learning

A major part of the workshop will be a 20-minute Scenario Exercise in breakout groups. Participants will work through complex, real-life dilemmas, such as:

• “Just a Joke?” – Addressing a line manager who dismisses repeated offensive comments.
• “We Can’t Prove It” – Supporting an outsourced worker with no formal complaint or evidence against a supervisor.
• “Not My Job” – Acting preventively when employees express discomfort with a manager’s behaviour but are unwilling to file a report.

These exercises, guided by TEA-based tools, will help representatives discuss and apply strategies to address systemic issues and shift responsibility from the individual to the organization.

The workshop will conclude by sharing key survey findings on the lack of clear reporting channels and fear of retaliation, and presenting Better Practices and Collective Responses, including trusted-person systems and survivor-centered protocols.

Join us on November 20 to gain the tools to effectively rewire your institution for a safer, more equitable future.