Harassment prevention training should address pro-social skill development; not just policies and laws to memorize Have you ever wondered why we still have so much harassment and discrimination litigation 25 years after the landmark U.S. Supreme Court cases of Faragher and Ellerth prompted employers to start conducting regular harassment training workshops? Harassment training hasn’t stopped…
Increasingly, all regions around the globe are converging on a basic workplace requirement to take steps to prevent employee harassment based on personal characteristics legally protected in that region. Sexual harassment prevention policies (and associated training) are either highly recommended and/or mandated in most countries to guarantee a basic right to be free from bias…
Employers in California and New York must now meet new sexual harassment training requirements to provide to all of their employees. Do you know how your company plans to comply? We hosted a webinar, led by me and Simone Francis, Shareholder, Ogletree Deakins. There were a few recurring questions that came up during the session,…
When I first began advocating for training all employees on sexual harassment prevention, a few companies agreed that this would be an effective way to address workplace harassment. But most would say, “are you kidding…isn’t that just giving our employees a roadmap on how to sue us?” “No,” I’d protest. In fact, quite the opposite…
