Horrible report from Rio Tinto released: Harassment, rape, racism

"A report released by Rio Tinto outlined a culture of bullying, harassment and racism at the global mining giant, including 21 complaints of actual or attempted rape or sexual assault over the past five years", Reuters reports, adding that nearly half of all employees who responded to an external review of company's workplace culture commissioned by Rio said they had been bullied, while racism was found to be common across a number of areas.
Rio Tinto Chief Executive Jakob Stausholm said the results were "disturbing" and the company would implement all 26 recommendations from the report by former Australian sex discrimination commissioner Elizabeth Broderick.
"The eye opener for me was two-fold," Stausholm told Reuters. "I hadn't realized how much bullying exists in the company and secondly that it's quite systemic - the three issues of bullying, sexual harassment and racism... that's extremely disturbing", Stausholm told Reuters.
Rio Tinto launched the review in March last year, not long after Stausholm took over the top job in the wake of a widespread backlash against the company after it blasted the 46.000-year-old Juukan Gorge rock shelters to expand an iron ore mine.
More than 10.000 employees, nearly a quarter of its 45,000-strong workplace shared their experiences and views for the study.
The report found nearly 30% women and about 7% of men have experienced sexual harassment at work, with 21 women reporting actual or attempted rape or sexual assault.
Racism was a "significant challenge" for employees at many locations. People working in a country different to their birth experienced high rates of racism while nearly 40% of men who identify as Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander in Australia had experienced racism.
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