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Prevent sexual harassment

Prevent sexual harassment

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Prevent sexual harassment

- In my experience, the main compliance concern employers want to address in the employee handbook is the prevention of sexual harassment, discrimination, and similar risk exposures. And they should be concerned. Every year, approximately 90,000 discrimination-related claims are filed with The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, otherwise known as the EEOC. Claim categories relate to a wide range of problems including sexual harassment, age, sex, and race discrimination, disability discrimination, and of course there's more. The largest claim category of all is out of retaliation which is usually attached to an underlying discrimination or harassment claim. Sexual harassment, discrimination, and retaliation claims are expensive matters. Just the cost of defending one can costs hundreds of thousands of dollars, and this is true whether the company wins or loses. So how do these risks relate to your employee handbook? Odds are your company policy probably starts with a company…

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