How should I train employees to define and recognize harassment?
It is important to give employees a thorough grasp of what is and what is not harassment. By definition, harassment must be unwelcome conduct, and it must be severe or pervasive. Disparaging jokes or degrading comments, excessive rudeness, offensive pictures or e-mails, negative stereotypesall of these things can constitute workplace harassment by causing a hostile work environment. In addition, any kind of harassment that later results in a change in an employees employment status or benefits constitutes an additional form of discrimination. Harassment can take place between one co-worker and another or between a group of workers towards one worker or between a boss to an employee or vice-versa. It can be reported by either the offended or a witness. All that matters is that severe and unwelcome conduct created a hostile work environment. It is also important, however, that employees know what is not harassment. Isolated incidents of harassment or incidents that are not severe will ge
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