EEOC workplace harassment guidance overview:
- Who: The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) released draft workplace harassment guidance.
- Why: The new EEOC workplace harassment guidance is intended to provide clarity on new developments in the law.
- Where: If finalized, the EEOC workplace harassment guidance will apply throughout the United States.
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has released draft workplace harassment guidance nearly six years after a previous proposal was unveiled but never finalized, Law360 reports.
The proposal is titled “Proposed Enforcement Guidance on Harassment in the Workplace.” Once it is published in the Federal Register, it will reportedly be open for public comment until Nov. 1.
“Preventing and addressing harassment in America’s workplaces has long been a key priority for the EEOC, and this guidance will provide clarity on new developments in the law and build on the commission’s previous work,” EEOC Chair Charlotte A. Burrows said of the proposed workplace harassment guidance.
“The commission looks forward to receiving public input on the proposed enforcement guidance.”
New EEOC workplace harassment guidance is first voted document since 1999, EEOC says
The new EEOC workplace harassment guidance is the first voted document issued by the commission on harassment since 1999, an EEOC spokesperson noted.
In 2017, the EEOC released a proposed update to its sexual harassment guidance and sought public comment. The workplace harassment guidance was based on findings from a 2016 workplace harassment study. However, the proposed guidance was never finalized.
Updates to the EEOC workplace harassment guidance were driven by several dramatic events in recent years, including the #MeToo movement, which highlighted the issue of sexual harassment in the workplace.
“Although many high-profile harassment cases involve harassment based on sex, race, or national origin, the EEOC also enforces laws prohibiting work-related harassment based on color, religion, disability, genetic information, and age (40 or over),” the EEOC explains in its draft workplace harassment guidance.
EEOC spokesperson Victor Chen says that the proposal was approved by a 3-2 vote, although he did not note which commissioners voted in favor.
The EEOC vote in favor came just months after Democratic appointees earned a three-seat majority in the commission once the Biden administration’s pick Kalpana Kotagal was sworn in.
Employees who experience workplace harassment may have a legal claim. Recently, a group of 10 Sweetgreen employees in New York filed a lawsuit alleging the company discriminates on the basis of race and sex and created a hostile work environment.
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3 thoughts onEqual Employment Opportunity Commission releases draft enforcement guidance on workplace harassment
I worked for a high school for sixteen years and they brought in a consultant firm in. I never missed a day of work. The last two years 2006 & 2007was worst years working there. I was belittled, call names, was told I was stupid in so many words. Was sent out of meetings to find a something. Then was asked questions about the meetings. Had a chef put his foot on the door of my office and wouldn’t let me out. Went to HR and was told discuss it later . Later never came. I went into the hospital because of stress and they told me to go home and rest. The consultant sent a maintenance man to my home and gave me a letter I had to report to HR. And I was still on a sick leave. I finally got fire for not knowing how to do my job after sixteen years. Went down town to Eeoc and they said it was nothing they can do. They told me it’s hard to fight a school board. I suffer from depression and anxiety since I lost my job. They even fought my unemployment. I fought for my job and know one would help me.
Is there truly anyone that works at the Missouri EEOC??? For real my old case manager retired and now I can’t get in contact at all with my new case manager and I have another case pending but don’t have an interview until 03 of 2024!!!??? When will my justice be served!? :(
I worked at Stanford hospital for many years, I’ve watched them discriminate on older employees.
Personally I had the worst harassment I’ve seen. I had disability accommodations for 15 years for ADD. When I had my review by someone who had never been my manager she write I’m difficult when trying because I say I don’t learn the same way as others. I said something about it and that’s when they got really bad. I was made to get a new
doctors note for accommodations, I just wanted to continue working as I had been. They denied everything except allowing me to take notes when training…. The first time I was put into training, the manager told me I was not allowed to take notes. She also told the person training me not to let me take notes and not to help me, then at 7:00 am the person training me left the department for her own training and I was left alone.
There was so much harassment to the point of calling me a stupid white bitch and more.
I filed a complaint with the EEOC, all they did was waste 1 year of my time, never investigated or called 1 of my witnesses and then they said no wrong doing found. They basically just ran my time out, they weren’t nice at all! Waste of precious time!