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Promoting a Safer Workplace: NSW’s Respect at Work Strategy for Preventing Sexual Harassment

Workplace Mediation Blog

The NSW government recently released SafeWork’s NSW Respect at Work Strategy: preventing sexual harassment. It’s a comprehensive four-year plan to prevent and address sexual harassment in workplaces across NSW. Sexual harassment occurs in every industry and at every level, regardless of business size.

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Celebrating Diversity and Inclusion in the Workplace: A Comprehensive Guide

HR Digest

Fostering diversity and inclusion in the workplace is crucial for organizations that want to stay competitive and successful. Diversity and inclusion (D&I) policies promote an environment where people from different backgrounds are culturally and socially accepted, valued, and integrated. A majority of U.S.

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Moving Beyond the Legal Definition of Sexual Harassment

EverFi - HR

For years, companies have been taking steps to address behaviors that meet the legal definition of sexual harassment in the workplace. They implemented training filled with examples from court cases, policies that repeat legal standards, and consequences for behavior that violated these rules. Download Free.

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Your Weekly Dose of HR Tech: @TryVantagePoint – Virtual Reality Harassment Training!

The Tim Sackett Project

VantagePoint is a virtual reality(VR) learning technology company that has produced both sexual harassment and diversity and inclusion training, as well as a training metrics dashboard to go along with their VR training. You just have them show up, and they take your employees through the training.

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Sexual Harassment and HR’s Perception Problem

i4cp

As i4cp reported earlier this year, the results of a pulse survey we fielded on the topic of sexual harassment and how organizations are responding to the issue identified distinct areas that can and should be improved upon, starting with HR. Here we are, six months after the #metoo hashtag caught fire. Is HR out of touch?

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10 ways to train your employees

Abel HR

Training employees is a critical part of any business. If you don’t prioritize employee training, the drawback could be fatal. According to studies, more than 40% of employees who do not receive training leave the company in their first year. But of course, just throwing out half-baked training programs is not good too.

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6 of the Biggest Threats to an Effective Workplace Training Program

EverFi - HR

Organizations have been providing harassment training for employees for a number of years, and in some areas, state and federal government agencies have been requiring it too. Yet, despite the widespread adoption of workplace training programs, historical data doesn’t support the effectiveness of those efforts. .