Multicultural Services Centre of Western Australia has been awarded a $100,000 State Government grant, through the Women’s Grants for a Stronger Future Program, to deliver the project.
The Zero Tolerance initiative will promote safe, respectful, and inclusive workplaces for culturally and linguistically diverse women.
The project will establish an online information hub with specialised support and referrals for migrant and refugee women who experience sexual harassment.
Zero Tolerance will provide training programs to help raise awareness, reduce barriers to reporting incidents in the workplace and contribute to preventing gender-based violence in the community.
MSCWA staff will undergo training to deliver information on workers’ rights, including workplace sexual harassment.
The initiative will also provide free access to interpreters to people whose first language is not English if they are involved in a workplace sexual harassment complaint.
The project aligns with recommendations from the Australian Human Rights Commission’s Respect@Work: Sexual Harassment National Inquiry Report 2020, which found that 39 per cent of women had experienced workplace sexual harassment in the past five years.
The Commission found that migrant and refugee women were more likely than the general population to experience sexual harassment.
The Multicultural Services Centre of Western Australia was one of 14 community organisations to receive funding through the Women’s Grants for a Stronger Future program earlier this year.
Total program funding was increased from $85,000 to $335,000, with grants spread across the priority areas of women's health and wellbeing, economic independence, safety and justice to align with the State Government's Stronger Together: WA's Plan for Gender Equality.
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