On 2 June the Council of Ministers adopted a bill to ratify ILO Convention no.190 (2019), which seeks to eliminate violence and harassment from the workplace. As well as introducing a ban on such phenomena into law, it requires firms to implement prevention plans and training, as well as protection and compensation for victims. If the bill is approved by the National Assembly, France will become the seventh country to have ratified the convention.
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