Malta’s national orchestra is meeting with the equality commission to draft new internal policies after it was embroiled in a sexual harassment scandal last month. Culture Minister Owen Bonnici told Times of Malta the top brass at the Malta Philharmonic Orchestra last week met with the National Commission for the Promotion of Equality to begin drafting a dedicated internal policy to counter sexual discrimination and promote equality in the workplace. That policy, once finalised, will be transmitted to employees and staff training will be made available, he said. The orchestra has been at the centre of a sexual harassment scandal as allegations surfaced last month about a cover-up. The police pressed charges against an MPO official, who pleaded guilty to sexual harassment during the very first court sitting. A magistrate heard that the victim had reported the harassment internally but had been ignored. She eventually quit that job and said that the “abuse and multiple incidents of sexual harassment that took place at the office and during work functions” had taken their toll. Her health, both physical and mental, had suffered, leaving her with no option but to “move on to a...
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