In our Sexual Harassment Awareness training classes your employees will learn and apply the important skills of handling sexual harassment issues and complaints. This hands on class thoroughly addresses the elements of how to prevent unacceptable behavior. The class includes a detailed overview of what sexual harassment is, explains legal definitions, discusses sexual harassment prevention, and shows how to handle sexual harassment complaints and maintain a positive work environment.

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Sexual Harassment Training: Sexual Harassment the Epidemic - Recognition and Prevention

Sexual harassment creates confusion because it blurs the boundary between professional roles and personal relationships. The victim and/or harasser can be a woman or a man and does not have to be the opposite sex. "Sexual harassment" is a legal term, created for the purpose of ending maltreatment and discrimination against men and women in the workplace. It is a form of sex discrimination that violates Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. According to The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission ("EEOC"), the number of sex harassment charges increased from 6,883 in 1991 to 15,618 in 1998.

Sexual Harassment Training

The most commonly reported complaints are: an employee being fired or denied benefits for refusing sexual favors, an employee resigns to escape an offensive work environment, and retaliation against employees reporting unwanted sexual advances.

Sexual harassment includes use of sexist terms, comments about body parts, sexual advances, unwanted touching, gestures, taunting, sexual graffiti, and rumor mongering about a classmate's sexual identity or activity. Unwelcome sexual advances, requests for sexual favors, and other verbal or physical conduct of a sexual nature constitutes sex harassment when submission to or rejection of this conduct explicitly or implicitly affects an individual's employment, unreasonably interferes with an individual's work performance or creates an intimidating, hostile or offensive work environment. Court decisions have also found that certain types of offensive visual displays in the workplace, such as pornography, can be considered harassment.

Sex harassment is not only harmful, it's costly. Prevention including sexual harassment training is the best tool to eliminate sexual harassment in the workplace. Employers are encouraged to take steps including sexual harassment training necessary to prevent sexual harassment from occurring. Good policies and procedures provide an effective means for promptly and appropriately responding to harassment complaints. A policy against sex discrimination, particularly one that specifically addresses harassment that is sexual in nature, and  that includes sexual harassment training is an extremely important method for preventing harassment. This policy should also prohibit retaliation against any person who brings an accusation of discrimination or harassment or who assists with the investigation or resolution of harassment.

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