Sexual Harassment Disciplinary Training in Washington
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Providing onsite Sexual Harassment seminars & Disciplinary training in the following cities:
SEATTLE | TACOMA | SPOKANE
During our one-one-one Harassment Disciplinary and Awareness Training your employee will be challenged & counseled by our top level trainers. They will learn precisely what violations of your company’s policies, EEOC laws that govern harassment & individual statues, theyhave violated.
These counseling sessions are highly interactive, which we guarantee that your employee will know & understand the standards concerning the workplace & especially the Common Sense factor.
Your employee will take a Pre-Test & Post-Test to determine their exact level of knowledge & retention. This also will become a permanent part of their personnel file, along with several appropriate handouts. Our confidential written summary and professional recommendations, will make sure that your employee comprehends the exact legal statues, company guidelines & “Zero Tolerance” of future problems.
THE EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY COMMISSION (EEOC) DEFINES SEXUAL HARASSMENT AS FOLLOWS:
EXPLICITLY OR IMPLICITLY AFFECTS AN INDIVIDUAL’S EMPLOYMENT
UNREASONABLY INTERFERES WITH AN INDIVIDUAL’S WORK PERFORMANCE
CREATES AN INTIMIDATING, HOSTILE, OR OFFENSIVE WORK ENVIRONMENT
WORKPLACE HARASSMENT, WHICH INCLUDES SEXUAL HARASSMENT, IS PROHIBITED BY TITLE VII OF THE CIVIL RIGHTS ACT OF 1964 WHICH PROHIBITS EMPLOYERS WITH 15 OR MORE EMPLOYEES FROM DISCRIMINATING ON THE BASIS OF RACE, COLOR, SEX, RELIGION, OR NATIONAL ORIGIN. THE LAW APPLIES TO FEDERAL, STATE, AND LOCAL EMPLOYERS AND GOVERNS ALL EMPLOYMENT ACTIONS. LAWS REGARDING WORKPLACE HARASSMENT ARE ENFORCED BY THE US EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY COMMISSION (EEOC).
IN ADDITION, SIX STATES (CALIFORNIA, CONNECTICUT, DELAWARE, ILLINOIS, MAINE, AND NEW YORK) HAVE THEIR OWN STATE LAWS SPECIFICALLY ADDRESSING SEXUAL HARASSMENT:
- CALIFORNIA – AB 1825, AB 2053, SB 396, SB 1300, SB 1343
- CONNECTICUT – CONNECTICUT HUMAN RIGHTS AND OPPORTUNITY ACT, TIME’S UP ACT
- DELAWARE – HB 360
- ILLINOIS – SB 0075 ILLINOIS HUMAN RIGHTS ACT, WORK TRANSPARENCY ACT
- MAINE – MAINE EMPLOYMENT LAWS REVISED STATUTE, TITLE 26, SECTION 807
- NEW YORK – NEW YORK HUMAN RIGHTS LAW § 296.1, NEW YORK CITY STOP SEXUAL HARASSMENT
Washington Disciplinary Harassment updates
Washington lawmakers renewed their push Thursday to increase criminal penalties for harassment of election workers.
The state House of Representatives, on an 86-11 vote, approved House Bill 1241 to make it a class C felony for a person to threaten election officials with injury through words or conduct. Today, such behavior carries a lesser penalty of a gross misdemeanor.
The same bill cleared the House on a 90-7 vote last session but lapsed in the Senate. It is expected to receive a hearing in the Senate in early February.
“Our election workers are the heroes of democracy,” said Rep. Mari Leavitt, D-University Place, the bill’s prime sponsor, in a floor speech.
Leavitt recalled several counties halted ballot counting following the most recent election when envelopes containing an unknown white power arrived in their election offices. Initial tests found traces of fentanyl on envelopes received in at least two, according to news reports.
“The recent rash of threats against election workers should concern all of us,” she said.
In addition to stiffer penalties, the bill allows election officials and family members living with them to enroll in the state’s address confidentiality program.
State Rep. Jim Walsh, R-Aberdeen voted against the bill. He said no one in Washington should be harassed but he disagreed with making the crime a felony when the penalty for possession of fentanyl is a gross misdemeanor. It should be a felony, he said.
Walsh, who is also chair of the Washington State Republican Party, said the issue of election worker harassment is getting politicized across the ideological spectrum.
“Some of us on this floor right now are on lists kept by government agencies of words that are perceived as harassing or threatening of election workers or election processes,” he said. “We need to tread very carefully when we get in the business of weaponizing speech or weaponizing the government’s reaction to speech.”
Secretary of State Steve Hobbs watched Thursday’s vote from the House wings. He said this bill represents a proactive move on workers’ behalf ahead of what will be a heated 2024 election season.
County auditors strongly back the legislation.
“We’re pleased to see it is on its way to the Senate,” said Snohomish County Auditor Garth Fell. “It’s a good bill that will make the work environment safer for election workers.”
A 2022 law dealing with cyberstalking enhanced penalties for those convicted of using the internet to harass election workers while they are doing their jobs.
That law, like the one passed Thursday, made such behavior a class C felony, punishable by up to five years in prison or a $10,000 fine. It had been a gross misdemeanor, which carries a sentence of up to one year in jail and a fine of up to $5,000.
Sexual harassment seminars & Disciplinary training are available in the following cities ;
Seattle
Hyatt Hotel
110 6th Avenue North Seattle, Washington, 98109
Spokane
Embassy Suites Hotel
3244 S. Blvd. Spokane
Tacoma
Embassy Suites
3455 N. Crown Blvd., Tacoma
