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Jun 21, 2016

A Call For Harmony Between The EEOC And NLRB’s Rules Concerning Prevention And Investigation Of Workplace Harassment

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On June 20, 2016, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s Select Task Force on the Study of Harassment in the Workplace released its final report. The report can be found here.  The report found that workplace harassment remains a persistent problem and that harassment often goes unreported. The Task Force urged that harassment prevention training must change as much of the training done over the last 30 years, which focused simply on legal compliance, has not been effective as a prevention tool. It should be noted that in reaching this finding, the Task Force admits that there are deficiencies in almost all of the empirical studies done on the effectiveness of training standing alone. However, the Task Force concluded that the existing reliable studies, along with the practical and anecdotal evidence provided by employers and trainers agree that training cannot stand alone, but must be a part of a holistic effort to prevent harassment.

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