The stories of sexual harassment shared by female lawyers following an alleged groping incident at a lawyers’ gathering last month show that work-related harassment is not confined to the workplace, said the Women’s Aid Organisation (WAO).

These experiences show that while firms can be held accountable when there is harassment within their working premises, there exists a grey area that is out of the reach of company sexual harassment policies.

As such, WAO Advocacy Manager Yu Ren Chung said the Sexual Harassment Act the government has committed itself to enact must fill this gap...