Sexual Harassment Disciplinary Training in N. Dakota
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Providing onsite Sexual Harassment seminars & Disciplinary training in the following cities:
FARGO | BISMARCK | GRAND FORKS
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, they have 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
N. Dakota Disciplinary Harassment updates
FARGO, N.D. (Valley News Live) – UPDATE: A sexual harassment lawsuit involving North Dakota’s only medical school and the state’s largest healthcare provider has been partially dismissed.
In court documents filed in April 2023, Dr. Fiona Axelsson alleges her family medicine program director in residency sexually harassed her and multiple other female coworkers. She claims when it was brought to the Sanford Health’s attention, her claims were ignored.
Court records allege it started in July 2020 when Dr. Jason Myrmoe started as the Family Medicine Residency Program Director. Documents state Dr. Myrmoe would make comments such as, “you’re too emotional,” to Dr. Axelsson as she was working. Documents also allege Dr. Myrmoe would “unashamedly check Dr. Axelsson out, moving his eyes up and down, very slowly, leering at her.”
Dr. Axelsson made several complaints to HR regarding Dr. Myrmoe, and eventually in February of 2021, Sanford HR and UND met with Dr. Axelsson and told her they found the “allegations of sexual harassment against Dr. Myrmoe to be true,” court documents allege. Records also say multiple other women came forward with similar accusations.
Eventually, Dr. Myrmoe was removed as the director of the program and put in another clinic to continue work in family medicine.
Court documents state Dr. Axelsson suffered from mental health struggles, including depression and suicidal thoughts, PTSD and substance use disorder because of the alleged harassment.
In April 2023, documents were filed in federal court dismissing the lawsuit against UND’s medical school, but the stipulation “does not affect Plaintiff’s claims against the other defendants whatsoever.” A federal judge signed the dismissal with prejudice, meaning Axelsson cannot re-file the same claims against UND in the future, on Jan. 12, 2024.
As of this publication, the case is slated to go to trial on Oct. 6.