diff --git a/lib/mocha/hooks.js b/lib/mocha/hooks.js
index 3393e3369..ded7f7b42 100644
--- a/lib/mocha/hooks.js
+++ b/lib/mocha/hooks.js
@@ -33,12 +33,22 @@ class Hook {
   }
 
   simplify() {
+    // this.runnable (context.ctx.test) is the hook's own runnable; its
+    // .parent is the real Mocha Suite that owns this hook. Included here so
+    // run-workers can forward suite identity to the main process, where
+    // listeners (e.g. junitReporter) have no other way to recover it — the
+    // worker's live Suite/ctx objects aren't serializable across the thread
+    // boundary, only these plain fields are.
+    const suite = this.runnable?.parent
     return {
       hookName: this.hookName,
       title: this.title,
       // test: this.test ? serializeTest(this.test) : null,
       // suite: this.suite ? serializeSuite(this.suite) : null,
       error: this.err ? serializeError(this.err) : null,
+      suiteTitle: suite?.title || null,
+      suiteFile: suite?.file || null,
+      suiteTags: suite?.tags || [],
     }
   }
 
diff --git a/lib/plugin/junitReporter.js b/lib/plugin/junitReporter.js
index 0fac0a8a8..a3f104e5d 100644
--- a/lib/plugin/junitReporter.js
+++ b/lib/plugin/junitReporter.js
@@ -67,13 +67,29 @@ export default function (config = {}) {
 
   let written = false
   const hookFailures = []
+  // groupBySuite() (below) groups by object identity, not by value — reused
+  // across BeforeSuite/AfterSuite failures from the same worker-forwarded
+  // suite so they land in one <testsuite>, not one per failure.
+  const workerSuiteByKey = new Map()
 
   event.dispatcher.on(event.hook.failed, hook => {
     if (!hook || !['BeforeSuite', 'AfterSuite'].includes(hook.hookName)) return
     const err = hook.err || hook.error
     if (!err) return
     const runnable = hook.ctx && hook.ctx.test
-    const suite = runnable && runnable.parent
+    // Under run-workers, hook.ctx is absent — the failure arrives as the
+    // plain object from Hook.simplify() in the main process instead of a
+    // live Hook instance. Fall back to the suiteTitle/suiteFile/suiteTags
+    // simplify() carries across the worker boundary so the failure still
+    // groups under its real suite instead of the "Tests" fallback.
+    let suite = runnable && runnable.parent
+    if (!suite && hook.suiteTitle) {
+      const key = `${hook.suiteTitle} ${hook.suiteFile || ''}`
+      if (!workerSuiteByKey.has(key)) {
+        workerSuiteByKey.set(key, { title: hook.suiteTitle, file: hook.suiteFile, tags: hook.suiteTags })
+      }
+      suite = workerSuiteByKey.get(key)
+    }
     hookFailures.push({
       title: hook.title || `${hook.hookName} hook failed`,
       state: 'failed',
diff --git a/test/data/sandbox/codecept.workers-junit.conf.js b/test/data/sandbox/codecept.workers-junit.conf.js
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..e0def8932
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/data/sandbox/codecept.workers-junit.conf.js
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+export const config = {
+  tests: './workers-junit-suite-hooks/*.js',
+  timeout: 10000,
+  output: './output',
+  helpers: {
+    FileSystem: {},
+    Workers: {
+      require: './workers_helper',
+    },
+  },
+  include: {},
+  async bootstrap() {},
+  mocha: {},
+  plugins: {
+    junitReporter: {
+      enabled: true,
+    },
+  },
+  name: 'sandbox',
+}
diff --git a/test/data/sandbox/workers-junit-suite-hooks/junit_suite_hooks.worker.js b/test/data/sandbox/workers-junit-suite-hooks/junit_suite_hooks.worker.js
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..db40e1494
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/data/sandbox/workers-junit-suite-hooks/junit_suite_hooks.worker.js
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+Feature('JunitWorkerSuiteHooks')
+
+BeforeSuite(async () => {
+  throw new Error('BeforeSuite worker failure')
+})
+
+Scenario('should not be executed either', ({ I }) => {
+  I.say('unreachable')
+})
+
+AfterSuite(async () => {
+  throw new Error('AfterSuite worker failure')
+})
diff --git a/test/runner/run_workers_test.js b/test/runner/run_workers_test.js
index e7b03f268..fe805602a 100644
--- a/test/runner/run_workers_test.js
+++ b/test/runner/run_workers_test.js
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ import fs from 'fs'
 import semver from 'semver'
 import { exec } from 'child_process'
 import { fileURLToPath } from 'url'
+import xml2js from 'xml2js'
 const __filename = fileURLToPath(import.meta.url)
 const __dirname = path.dirname(__filename)
 
@@ -512,6 +513,34 @@ describe('CodeceptJS Workers Runner', function () {
     })
   })
 
+  it('should preserve suite identity for BeforeSuite/AfterSuite hook failures in the JUnit report', function (done) {
+    if (!semver.satisfies(process.version, '>=11.7.0')) this.skip('not for node version')
+    const reportFile = path.join(codecept_dir, 'output', 'report.xml')
+    if (fs.existsSync(reportFile)) fs.rmSync(reportFile)
+
+    exec(`${codecept_run_glob('codecept.workers-junit.conf.js')} 1`, (err, stdout) => {
+      ;(async () => {
+        expect(stdout).toContain('BeforeSuite worker failure')
+        expect(stdout).toContain('AfterSuite worker failure')
+        expect(err.code).toEqual(1)
+
+        expect(fs.existsSync(reportFile)).toEqual(true)
+        const parsed = await new xml2js.Parser().parseStringPromise(fs.readFileSync(reportFile, 'utf8'))
+
+        // Both hook failures must land under the real suite name, grouped into a
+        // single <testsuite>, not split across two <testsuite name="Tests"> elements.
+        expect(parsed.testsuites.testsuite).toHaveLength(1)
+        const suiteEl = parsed.testsuites.testsuite[0]
+        expect(suiteEl.$.name).toEqual('JunitWorkerSuiteHooks')
+        expect(suiteEl.testcase).toHaveLength(2)
+
+        const names = suiteEl.testcase.map(tc => tc.$.name)
+        expect(names.some(n => n.includes('BeforeSuite'))).toEqual(true)
+        expect(names.some(n => n.includes('AfterSuite'))).toEqual(true)
+      })().then(done, done)
+    })
+  })
+
   it('should handle large worker count without inflating statistics', function (done) {
     if (!semver.satisfies(process.version, '>=11.7.0')) this.skip('not for node version')
     // Test with more workers than tests to ensure no inflation