4.90.050 Procedures and rules for education and training.
A. Education and training for employees at each level of the workforce are critical to the success of the city’s sexual harassment policy. The following documents will help the city meet its goals in this area:
1. A letter to all employees describing the city’s policy against sexual harassment from the city manager in addition to a copy of the city’s personnel manual which includes this article which constitutes the city’s policy on sexual harassment.
2. The city manager’s letter will be conspicuously posted along with the Alaska Human Rights Commission’s poster on sexual harassment throughout the workplace and in each department: on each city bulletin board, in all central gathering areas, and in every locker room.
3. The letter and poster must be clearly legible and displayed continuously.
4. The city manager’s letter will indicate that copies of the city’s sexual harassment policy are available at no cost to an employee and how they can be obtained.
B. Education and training include the following components:
1. As part of general orientation, each recently hired employee will be given a copy of the letter from the city manager and requested to read and sign a receipt for the city’s policy statement on sexual harassment included in the personnel regulations so that they are on notice of the standards of behavior expected.
2. When the personnel regulations are significantly altered and distributed to the employees, each employee will be given a copy of the letter from the city manager and requested to read and sign a receipt for the city’s policy statement on sexual harassment included in the personnel regulation so that they are on notice of the standards of behavior expected.
C. All employees will participate on city time in annual seminars that teach strategies for resisting and preventing sexual harassment. At least one hour in length, these seminars will be conducted by one or more experienced sexual harassment educators.
D. All supervisory personnel will participate in an annual two-hour training session on sexual discrimination. At least one and one-half hours will be devoted to education about workplace sexual harassment, including training as to what types of remarks, behavior and pictures will be and will not be tolerated in the city’s workplace. (Ord. 12-001 § 3, 2013)