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Despite his former company being involved in a sexual harassment case, United Conservative Party house leader Jason Nixon maintains there’s no need for the government to legislate workplace harassment policies.

MLAs are currently mulling Bill 30. Among other changes, it will mandate anti-bullying and harassment policies for all Alberta workplaces.

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Last week, Nixon argued against the bill, saying most companies have had such policies for a long time.

“The right way to deal with it is to get the industry to address it, to work through their safety associations … and they will do it. They’ve already proven it,” he said.

But in 2008, the British Columbia human rights tribunal found that a Nixon Safety Consulting employee named Kori Harrison was sexually harassed at a Kelowna worksite, then fired when she complained.

The case

Nixon’s company was one of four respondents named in the case, alongside Con-Forte Contracting and Navigator Development — both based in Calgary — and a man named Greg Ford.