It s not enough that you hand out copies of your company s anti-discrimination policies. It may not even be enough that you obtain the requisite signatures that employees have read and understand them. You may have to go one step further and translate for your employees. Managers at a food plant not only passed out anti-harassment policies in two languages, but demanded employees sign an acknowledgement receipt.
Many workers never read the policy some couldn t even read.
Your job as a manager may have to go beyond handing out policies and getting signatures. Consider these additional legal defenses. Clip articles from newspapers and magazines and pass them around. Especially cases that involved major hits on company coffers, and those where co-workers were the source of the bias. Use them to open anti-harassment policy discussions.