Policy Text
POLICY
179.0EMPLOYEE HARASSMENT POLICY
REVISED: 11 /2011
REVISED: 5/2019RELATED POLICIES:
Reviewed and revised by Chief David
Magnusson 5/2019
A.PURPOSE
The El Portal Police Department is committed to creating and maintaining a quality work
environment for all employees so that they may work free from intimidation, humiliation,
insult and physical or verbal abuse. Additionally, the Department is determined to have a
workplace that is free of sexual, ethnic, racial or religious harassment. Sexual, ethnic,
racial or religious harassment is an offense, first against this Department, and secondly
against any specific employee or group of employees. For these reasons the following
Policy against such conduct is adopted.
B.POLICY
It is this Department's Policy to prevent employee harassment from occurring and to
address reported incidents in a fair, impartial and speedy manner.
C.DEFINITIONS
Offenses mean physical or verbal actions that are abusive and have the purpose or effect
of creating a hostile, offensive, humiliating or intimidating working environment, or have
an ethnic, racial, religious or sexual basis. Examples include but are not limited to,
physical contact of a sexual nature, sexual, racial, ethnic or religious related jokes and
comments, insults, cartoons, innuendos or such other personal conduct or mannerisms
that could be construed as offensive.
D.PROCEDURES
1.The following procedures shall be implemented in all employee harassment cases:
a.The Chief of Police or his/her designee will be charged with investigating
all complaints of employee harassment.
b.All complaints or incidents of employee harassment will be individually
investigated the Chief of Police or his/her designee.
c.Each employee is responsible to assist in eliminating all forms of
prohibited conduct or harassment. Therefore, when any incident of this
type occurs, any employee having knowledge of the incident is to
immediately report the event to a supervisor of the employee's choosing.
d.A supervisor who is made aware of the occurrence of any violation of this
policy will gather all available data regarding the incident and will
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forward the information to the Chief of Police or his/her designee for
investigation.
2.In all complaints or incidents of employee harassment where a violation has been
documented, immediate action will be taken to remedy the situation and to
prevent its recurrence.
3.All persons who violate this policy will be subject to disciplinary procedures, up
to and including discharge.
4.Consultation shall take place with the Director of Human resources and the
Village Manager, who will assist in ensuring that every step taken during the
process is correct and that the investigation is thorough.
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