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Learning Objectives and Policy Awareness for Professionals

In this course, we will cover:

  • Definitions of sexual harassment and sexual assault (what these are) including forms and types

  • Responses to unlawful harassment and unwelcome sexual contact, whether experienced personally or witnessed

  • Federal and Illinois state laws you should know about

  • Other forms of unlawful harassment and abusive conduct

  • Remedies and reporting strategies available to victims of sexual harassment or sexual assault

  • Protection against retaliation / “whistleblower” protections

  • Employer responsibilities around unlawful harassment

  • Strategies for preventing unlawful harassment

  • The benefits of a harassment-free workplace

 

As we go through the course ahead, please think about this:

Is there an anti-harassment policy you should have a copy of??

Many professionals work as a sole proprietor, independent contractor, through their own professional corporation, or as a ‘stringer’.  Other professionals are semi-retired or not currently employed, but trying to keep their license active.  Said another way, not an employee of another company.

If you are your own boss, you probably don’t have a written sexual harassment prevention policy – after all, your policy is whatever you decide it should be. 

But if you are or should become an employee of another company in future, or are placed through an agency or similar organization, those groups can and often do have written sexual harassment policies.  Likewise, if you are placed to a company client or customer, that organization may have a sexual harassment policy.

If your employer, agency, or client/customer company has a written sexual harassment prevention policy, you will want to see a copy of it – and to comply with it.  Pay special attention to what the policy indicates you  should do if you witness or are subjected to sexual harassment in the workplace.

Ready to move forward in the course?

First, tap or click the check mark button in the center windowsill.

Next, tap or click the Next Lesson right arrow in the right windowsill.

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then, click or tap the right arrow Next button on the right side of the windowsill

Ready to move forward in the course?

First, tap or click the check mark button in the center windowsill.

Next, tap or click the Next Lesson right arrow in the right windowsill.

Arrow images pointing out the check mark button in the bottom center of the right reading pane's lower frame or windowsill, which should be marked first, then second to tap or click the Next Lesson button in the right windowsill.