Administration: Respect in the Workplace Flashcards
This is a complaint of discriminations, harassment or sexual harassment in violation of this policy. It also includes circumstances when a city employee hears about, learns of, discovers or otherwise becomes aware of prohibited conduct.
Complaint
This is all classified and unclassified employees, temporary, part time, contract employees, supervisors, and managers.
City Employee
This means words or terms that are used to degrade or infer a negative characteristic pertaining to race, color, religion, age, national origin, ethnic group, sexual orientations, gender, marital status, or disability status. Such works or terms may include slurs, insults, printed materials, visual materials, signs, symbols, posters, insignia.
Disparaging terms
This means all employees of the city of Fremont and participants in any City of Fremont program, activity, or business transaction.
Person
This means a violation of section 703 of title VII of the civil rights act, or the California fair employment and housing act and is defined as un-welcomed sexual advances, request for sexual favors and other verbal or physical conduct of a sexual nature. This includes same sex conduct regardless of whether the conduct is based on gender orientation.
Sexual Harassment
What four categories does any form of harassment fall under.
Written
Verbal
Physical
Other
Supervisors and managers are responsible for receiving reports, pursuing complaints within how many hours of receiving information and immediately notifying their supervisor of the complaint?
Within 48 hours
Supervisors are responsible for insuring that his/her supervising manager, or the department director, is informed about all complaints within how many hours of any complaint?
Within 24 hours
Managers and supervisors are obligated as a condition of employment to pursue complaints of behavior in violation of this policy. Investigation of complaints in the police department shall be conducted by what department?
This is “duty to investigate”
Internal affairs unit of the police department
Managers and supervisors shall act to complete an _____________ of all complaints within _____ calendar days of learning of the complaint.
Initial assessment
5 days
Who determines whether the complaint falls within policy?
Supervisor or manager
When further investigation is warranted, the matter shall be referred for what?
Criminal or administrative investigation
If the manager or supervisor determines that violence, assault or physical contact may have occurred, then who should the matter be referred to?
Police department or the Alameda County District Attorney
_______ means a person designated by the city manager to conduct investigations as required by this policy.
A City of Fremont Investigator
When the supervisor or manager determines that a violation of this policy may exist, the matter shall be referred to a designated City of Fremont investigator within the _____ calendar days after the supervisor or manager learned of the complaint.
10 days
