Anti-Harassment Policies

Everyone wants to work at a nice place. Work should be an oasis away from the world. Employees should be able to concentrate on work. Several methods assist in making work livable. Harassment and violence are deterrents to having an efficient workplace.

Harassment is one of the first signs of potential violence. Violence is awful for a company. It makes insurance premiums and legal costs higher. It is a threat to all Employees. Workers compensation is a good method for coping with accidents. It is better to not have accidents.

A company is liable for Employees, while they are at work. It does not matter if it is an office, warehouse or industrial plant. Employers only hire Employees to perform a job. Employees should be able to work with minimal concern about safety.

Education assists in helping Employees. Provide basic information with retraining and retraining. Wear a hardhat and steel-toe shoes on a construction site. Do not wear jewelery near machinery. Avoid walking across damp floors.

There are a psychological aspects to work. It is important Employees know how to be polite. It is important for Employers to protect themselves from being liable.

Any job takes concentration. Whether working at a computer or with a drill press, it is best to be calm and feel safe. A Customer Service Representative should not have preoccupations with another Employee. A Drill Press Operator should not feel stress or have distractions.

Harassment happens when a person feels their issues or personal viewpoints are more important than having a job. An initial sign of future issues, Employees are given written and verbal warnings. This allows time modify behavior to function with other Employees.

These written warnings are in association to activities. Provocative political, religious or personal items might provoke conversation. It is difficult determining if the crowd is finding a method to avoid work or an individual is attempting to use work to gain support. Self-expression is minimal. The person with something political, religious or personal has a reminder to not bring those items to work.

The group has another evaluation to determine if it is work avoidance. Sometimes it is difficult to know who is causing problems. An issue of this variety can continue for an excessive amount of time. If it never becomes violent, the issue is resolvable.

Never fight at work. Corporations have a variety of methods. One company has on-site psychologists. Some corporations have a panic room. The panic room is also an area to talk over issues with Employees who reports harassment. A Supervisor or Manager acts as an Arbitrator. Hopefully, they are able to resolve issues.

There are several corporations with a zero tolerance policy for violence. Whether a person provokes violence or hit another Employee is not important. Both are fired immediately.

On occasion, Employees verbally provoke another Employee into attacking them. This is a trap to get the other Employe fired. Unfortunately, if the Employee quits or is fired the Employee who engages in this activity will find another person to harass. It is difficult to know who is responsible, so participating in any fight at work is a one-time violation.

There are times when people are not fired immediately. This past record is available. When there are layoffs or hiring sprees, it is possible to layoff anyone who should have been fired.

A company is not able to produce anything without Employees. Employees are vital to a corporation. I am able to think of several reasons for why immediate dismissal is important. I do not want to work with someone who is violent or harassing everyone. I do not think anyone else does either. There is also a reason to gossip. Gossip has a tendency to make people lose focus.

It is the Business Owner's responsibility to identify potential risk of violence. Examples are three written warnings about dress-code. One verbal warning about personal items and two written warnings.

People question personal items at work. It is the Holidays and everyone wants to bring figurines to work. Usually there is a dominate religion in several cities. What appears to be a celebration of the holidays can be as comforting with pictures of Friends and Family.

Every workplace is in a community. Smaller companies enjoy employing few Employees. Even with few Employees, there are issues around religion. A festive celebration of Christmas is also a decisive restriction to only want to employ, associate and crater to Christians. Most people will ignore this and continue with life. However, someone will be upset and feel the action is hostile. If people decide it is discrimination, a workplace can become similar to a war-zone.

There is tension and an objective to gain employment to disprove discrimination. Are people more critical of a picture of Santa Claus or a plaque written in Hebrew that only appears during December?

Sometimes a section of the community will boycott a company. It is taking a decisive political stance. This tends to create opportunities for marketing and public relations. It can also make work tense. That is why most corporations send all Employees to an empathy seminar.

The removal of items with an association to beliefs and other expressions of individuality appears to be a method of minimizing personal freedom. If this removal of a personal identity assists in helping anyone avoid fights or injury, it is worthwhile.

Several corporations also forbid soliciting on premises. Many people think this is to protect themselves from Drug Dealers. It is to avoid people spending time talking about kitten poster, work avoidance and discrimination. One person's charity is another person's opening to talk about politics or religion.

Not understanding this creates liability lawsuits. Liability lawsuits increases Lawyer fees. Worker compensation has made it possible for many people to recover and get back to work.

People complain about unemployment benefits. How much does it cost to fire someone and return to a happy workplace? Is inefficiency, unemployment or insurance more expensive?

It is impossible to always have answers to make everyone happy. Employees are normal people with lives outside the office. They have beliefs and motivations. They work to become better people and establish an idea about how to be a better person. Work is not a savior. It is a contractual agreement to provide payment to someone to performs tasks. Liability is an enormous issue for Business Owner. It affects business and social life in a community.

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