Department managers have been instructed to take all necessary steps, including appropriate disciplinary action, to ensure and maintain a working environment free of sexual harassment, intimidation, and coercion. Each Department manager has designated a Sexual Harassment counselor for his or her Department and will disseminate, and post in prominent locations, the name and phone number of the designated Counselor to all employees. A complaint of sexual harassment must be filed within on year of the alleged act of harassment. Otherwise, the complaint may be considered untimely. In all cases, allegations of sexual harassment will be fully and completely investigated.
Every employee is entitled to work in an environment free from sexual harassment or coercion.
An employee who perceives comments, gestures, visual displays, or physical actions of a sexual nature by another employee or supervisor to be offensive is encouraged to immediately and clearly communicate to that person that such sexual behavior is unwelcome. The purpose of immediately communicating to a harasser that the behavior is unwelcome is to stop the harassment before it becomes more serious. Such notice will also go to support a claim that the harassment did occur. Failure to notify the harasser that the behavior is unwelcome does not prevent the filing of a complaint of sexual harassment. The following Sexual Harassment Complaint Procedure has been developed specifically for use by employees who believe that they have been sexually harassed, and who wish their complaint to be investigated by their individual department or the Personnel Department.