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Here are four ways to BOTCH a sexual harassment investigation

The Employer Handbook

That’s because an employer that learns about sexual harassment needs to respond in a way that is reasonably designed to end the complained-of behavior. First, don’t follow the anti-harassment policy. The victim complained to her manager about sexual harassment in September 2019. Unreasonable?

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4 key steps to maintaining HR compliance

HRExecutive

1, 2020, or will do so later this year. In addition, new paid-sick-leave laws, mandates on sexual-harassment training and anti-discrimination laws are springing up coast to coast. Gone are the days of printing your employee handbook and expecting it to get you through the year with just a few minor addendums.

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I have a copy of the EEOC’s ‘top secret, classified, confidential’* priorities for 2020. Want to see it?

The Employer Handbook

From The Employer Handbook : I’m focusing on the fourth bullet point. And the EEOC last updated its policy guidance on sexual harassment in 1990. Expect to see more EEOC publications in 2020. *And by ‘top secret, classified, confidential,’ I mean readily available from the U.S. And also, here and here.

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How to Prevent Retaliation in the Workplace: An HR’s Guide

Analytics in HR

Under the EEO laws, it is prohibited to punish job candidates or employees “for asserting their rights to be free from employment discrimination, including harassment.” resisting sexual advances or intervening to protect others. resisting sexual advances or intervening to protect others.

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Compliance Issues, #MeToo Movement Impact Employers

HRWatchdog

Agencies are moving quickly to complete their regulatory agendas before the 2020 election season,” said Michael Lotito, co-chair of Littler’s Workplace Policy Institute, in a press release. Do you have the same compliance concerns as the employers in this survey? The survey, released May 8, found that employers’ primary concern is the U.S.

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Harassment training entirely via text message. Could this actually work?

The Employer Handbook

Pluto claims to offer a text message harassment training course that helps startups get compliant in less than 5 minutes a day. . So, I headed over to the Pluto website to learn more. SB 1343 mandates that all Californian companies over 5 people conduct harassment training for their employees by January 1, 2020.

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Sexual Harassment Compliance Mandates: Everything You Need to Know in 2021

Zenefits

Preventing sexual harassment has been on the agenda for most companies since Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 , which prohibits sexual harassment and discrimination in the workplace. According to a Stop Street Harassment survey , 81% of women and 43% of men reported suffering from harassment in the workplace.