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A pan-European agreement on principles and procedures for combating sexual harassment in the workplace was signed on 11 November 2019 in Rotterdam between the central management of Unilever and its European works council. Harassment is considered as discrimination which undermines efforts on gender equality, harms labour relations and adversely affects productivity. Some "real life" examples are listed in the appendix of the agreement. A further appendix defines the minimum standards which have to be integrated into local company regulations at all Unilever business premises. There has already been a comparable agreement at the global level since January 2016 concluded with international union federations (see report in EWC News 1/2016) and in March 2019 the EWC succeeded in concluding a European framework agreement for strategic personnel development
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