The Garden Centre Association's (GCA) Garden Retail Online Workshops (GROW) e-learning platform is offering a new course to help recognize and prevent workplace sexual harassment.
Available to all GCA member garden centres and their teams and to Horticultural Trades Association (HTA) garden centres too, this is the 95th course to be added to Grow.
Antony Snow, Grow's Instructional Designer, explains: "Introduced in October 2024, the Worker Protection (Amendment of Equality Act 2010) Act 2023 is an important piece of legislation that protects all employees from sexual harassment in the workplace.
"Now that all employers have a duty to ensure that 'reasonable steps' have been taken to prevent sexual harassment in the workplace, providing adequate training has become even more crucial. I hope that this course will provide all of our members' employees, regardless of their seniority, with the training that they need to recognise what sexual harassment is, as well as guidance on what steps should be taken to prevent it in their centres," said Snow.
Grow courses cover a wide range of essential topics to help employees, so they can effectively help any customers and colleagues who need assistance.
Peter Burks, GCA CEO, adds: "Grow is accessible 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, making it convenient for garden centre staff to use when it suits them. Our members say it's an invaluable, cost-effective way of providing staff training and personal development. If you'd like to find out more about this course, GROW and the other 94 courses provided, please get in touch. There is a section on our website www.gca.org.uk/gca-grow-information and people can also contact Antony direct via our dedicated Grow email [email protected]."
For more information:
Garden Centre Association
Tel.: 01244 952170
[email protected]
gca.org.uk