Let’s face it, no one expects a mandated harassment-training program to actually change workplace behavior or employee team dynamics. Despite 30 years of corporate-sponsored harassment training, we ...
A government watchdog agency has found key gaps in federal agencies’ support to training programs aimed at preventing incidents of sexual harassment in the workplace. Federal agencies are required to ...
A primary objective of a business owner or manager is to maintain a safe, comfortable workplace with a minimum amount of interpersonal conflict. Achieving that objective necessitates providing ...
There was a time when sexual harassment training was a “just check the box, let's just get this over with” annual event, says Andrew Rawson, chief learning officer for Traliant, a company that ...
Was he serious? When HR 7152—the “Civil Rights Act of 1964”—was brought to the floor of the United States House of Representatives in early 1964, Representative Howard Smith of Virginia, a staunch ...
As more victims speak out about their allegations, employers — including NPR — are having to confront the failure of their sexual harassment training and reporting systems. Even trainers themselves ...
How do you make sexual harassment training effective? It’s a question that has plagued HR leads since the passage of the Civil Rights Act’s amendment banning sex discrimination. Since that time, only ...
During her six years in the Army, including a deployment to Iraq and promotion to staff sergeant, Antonieta Rico says she saw survivors of sexual assault and harassment who came forward labeled as ...
Last week, Googlers walked out over diversity issues and the internet giant’s handling of sexual harassment, and this week the company responded. Google CEO Sundar Pichai promised that the company ...
This increase in legislation is a clear outgrowth of the #MeToo movement that swept the United States following the Harvey Weinstein scandal. New York State and New York City have joined this movement ...