What are you doing about
Sexual Harassment Awareness in your business?
As many of you know, Bill is a manager in a large
aerospace company. Last week he had to conduct a training
class on Sexual Harassment Awareness. This is part of
his company's necessary actions to eliminate a hostile
work environment and to protect itself against liability
if an employee complaint reaches the courtroom. That
led to another of our discussions about the differences
AND THE SIMILARITIES of his business and the printing
industry. We concluded there are only similarities and
no differences. By the way, conduct of this class was
a manager's responsibility and not the Human Resources
department's.
It is a company
owner/manager's responsibility to ensure that the workplace
is not a hostile place. For that reason, you may impose
rules about fighting, and drug and alcohol abuse on
the company property. You may also impose rules in your
employee manual about firearms and other weapons not
being allowed on company property. But what are you
doing about Sexual Harassment Awareness?
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Do you
have a company policy?
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Do your
employees know it exists and understand
it?
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Do your
managers understand their obligations to respond
to any employee complaint?
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Do your
employees understand their rights and the process
to present complaints? Are you proactively cretaining
a non-hostile work environment?
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Is it
clear to everyone that it doesn't matter if there
was intent to harass, the only thing that matters
is that it was perceived to be harassment by the
victim?
If you need
help with this topic, contact us and do it today!
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Debra’s
Calendar
I
made it through my hectic travel schedule of the first
part of the year, and as you can see I will actually
be in the office during the next few months more often.
I’d love to hear from you, so call or e-mail anytime.
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June 12 – 14: Irvine, CA - Consulting
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June 19 – 21: Opelousas, LA – Consulting
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July 20 – 23: PrintImage International
Conference – Chicago, IL
We
are having a booth at the Expo – hope to see you there.
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July 28: Sir Speedy Annual Conference,
Reno, NV, Seminar on Hiring, Developing & Retaining
Top Performers
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July 31: Printing Industries of Northern
California, San Francisco, CA – Seminar on The Internal
Customer Philosophy
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August 1: Printing Industries of Northern
California, San Francisco, CA – Seminar on Hiring, Developing
& Retaining Top Performers
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August 2 – 4:
Taking some R&R in California – most likely
the wine country.
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Aug 5: Signal Graphics Annual Conference,
Lake Tahoe, NV, Seminar on Hiring, Developing &
Retaining Top Performers
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September 16: PrintImage Dallas Chapter, Seminar: Title
TBA
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From
the Business Section Arizona Daily Star, John Bolton,
6/4/2000.
Can't Hurry Hiring…
Employers
filling vacancies left by managers and executives are
spending 40% more time doing so than they did two years
ago, according to data collected by Challenger, Gray
& Christmas, a Chicago-based employment consulting
firm. In
the first quarter of 2000, the median length of
time it took to recruit a new employee was 3.58 months.
During the same quarter in 1998, the median length
of time was 2.55 months.
Common
sense might suggest the tight labor market is to blame
for the lengthy job search times.
But Challenger Gray CEO John Challenger offers
another explanation: pickiness.
"Employers may be shifting from the hire-any-warm-body
policy, despite ongoing labor shortages, since they
likely found such decisions harmful to productivity
and expansion plans rather than helpful," he said.
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