Two-year limit to report sexual harassment – Dalley

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Two-year limit to report sexual harassment – Dalley

AT LEAST one lawmaker has recommended a maximum period of two years for someone to make a report under the Sexual Harassment Bill now being reviewed by a joint select committee of Parliament. Committee member Horace Dalley made the proposal in the...

Source: Jamaica Gleaner

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