Unlawful Harassment Prevention for Global Employers
This highly interactive and provocative course challenges employees by requiring them to engage in 75 interactions, exercises and decision-making scenarios regarding real-life workplace harassment situations. This course focuses on the organization’s anti-harassment policy, rather than on the laws of a specific country. It allows employers to easily track individual acceptance of the organization policy and is ideal for global organizations that want to train employees around the world.
Course Topics
- Guidance on recognizing, reporting and resolving situations of harassment.
- Insight on confidentiality of complaints.
- Explanation of no-retaliation obligation.
- Commonly protected categories of employees.
- Workplace discussions about an individual’s appearance & medical condition.
- Dangers of discussing mental & emotional conditions.
- Relationship between vulgar language and harassment.
- Examples of how an employer’s policies apply off-site, even at work-related parties.
- Why jokes about a coworker’s failure to drink alcohol could be unlawful.
- Workplace dating & professional boundaries.
- Inappropriate behavior of a religious nature & religious rights in the workplace.
- Workplace birthday celebrations & age-related issues.
- How comments about weight could be unlawful harassment.
- Language & national origin issues.
- Pregnancy & related medical conditions.