HR Monthly Tip
November 2008
Tips for Preventing Sexual Harassment
Consider the following Tips for improving the effectiveness of your harassment policies:
- Actions Speak Louder than written policies – Initiate real consequences for behaviors that were likely intended to be prohibited by those policies.
- Training is an investment that counts – Training on topics such as harassment should be delivered separately to supervisors, employees, and HR staff. Each group should come away with confidence about what is expected of them.
- Even HR professionals may lose sight of legal realities. One way to prevent errors, in judgment is to have automatic (and confidential) oversight of each complaint and how it is managed.
- Verbal Harassment is the most common form of harassment. Avoid the tendency to believe that the something so difficult to control, like the spoken word, cannot create liability for the organization.
Founded in 1985, The TLC Companies is a Professional Employer Organization (PEO) that specializes in the trucking industry. The company is privately owned and the partners include management people who have spent many years in various aspects of business, industry, finance, PEOs, and trucking.
The TLC Companies employs thousands of worksite employees in more than 40 states. We have more than 550 trucking company customers in 38 states. Our individual clients have anywhere from one to 500 workers.