Harassment Training for HR Professionals

What every HR Professional needs to know about preventing sexual harassment and all forms of discriminatory harassment.

Employees should be able to work without being impaired by unlawful sexual harassment, or any form of discriminatory harassment. Harassment claims of any type are expensive in terms of dollars, employee morale and productivity not to mention the negative impact on the company’s reputation.

Your organization can create a defensible position sexual harassment or any other type of unlawful harassment claim. But you must be on top of your game when it comes to preventing workplace harassment.

In this fast paced and highly interactive session you will learn how to create a defensible position against harassment claims and have an affirmative defense if a claim is filed.

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HR Harassment Prevention Training Outline and Topics

What is sexual harassment?

EEOC's Facts About Sexual Harassment
Current definitions every HR professional must understand

The cost of sexual harassment

EEOC data
Costs often overlooked
Myths and misconceptions about harassment

When may an employer be held liable?

Quid Pro Quo
Hostile work environment
When automatic liability exists
What about Workplace Bullying and Abusive Conduct
Bystander Intervention
Gender Based Harassment
How to act reasonably whenever there is a complaint of sexual harassment
Making its anti-harassment policy clear
The complaint procedure effective
When the employee acts unreasonably
How you can lose the affirmative defense
What about harassment by non-supervisors or outsiders?
The liability of “knowing” – you should have known

The Affirmative Defense

How it works
Where it works
Where it does not work

The Severe and Pervasive Standard

How it is applied
How it is changing
Where it has changed

Punitive damages protection

The Court gives employers punitive damages protection
The employer's 'good-faith efforts to comply with Title VII.'"

EEOC's unlawful harassment guidance

Preventive measures to prohibit all forms of unlawful harassment, not just sexual harassment
Communicating the anti-harassment policy and complaint procedure
Investigation
Train and monitor
Taking immediate and appropriate corrective action
- Discipline;
- Discharge;
- Training; and,
- Monitoring.

Training supervisors and managers