The Justice Party will on Wednesday move a motion in the upper house calling for a Victorian Equal Opportunity and Human Rights Commission inquiry into the parliamentary complaints process.
It comes after Kaushaliya Vaghela quit the Labor Party earlier this month after alleging systematic bullying.
"There is not a single mechanism for all who work here that ensures we can be held to the same standards of behaviour, that we can be safe, and that an independent workplace standards body is available to deal with complaints free from political interference," Justice Party MP Tania Maxwell said in parliament on Tuesday.
"That's why I'm moving for the VEOHRC to examine the adequacy of existing laws, policies, structures and complaint mechanisms relating to bullying and harassment in the Victorian parliament."
She said the motion also asks the commission to look into whether the current processes require independence.
"My motion also asks the commission to advise on improvements and the establishment of an independent complaints body to manage and respond to complaints about bullying and harassment within the parliament," she said.
Premier Daniel Andrews said work was already under way to review the bullying and harassment framework within parliament.
"Work is being done by the president and the Speaker, department of parliamentary services and the party leadership ... we'll be a much better parliament for that," he told reporters on Tuesday.
"This is about culture but it's also about making sure that anybody who has had an experience like that can safely come forward, tell their story and get the support and the justice."
Mr Andrews hopes the review will be completed before the state election.
Ms Vaghela left Labor after supporting her former ally and disgraced factional powerbroker Adem Somyurek's the motion requesting the Victorian Ombudsman re-investigate any role Mr Andrews may have played in the government's 2014 election rorts scandal.
Mr Somyurek quit the party before it moved to expel him last year when it was revealed he led an "industrial-scale" branch-stacking operation for the moderate faction.
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