Harrison School District Two

District Policy Index Section G Index: Personnel

DISTRICT POLICY GB            Treatment of Staff/Respectful Workplace Date of revision:  January 24, 2013

Treatment of Staff/Respectful Workplace

All employees will be treated with respect, dignity and professionalism, and recognized for the values they bring to their respective positions.  Employees must avoid engaging in unwelcome behaviors deemed as harassing or offensive by persons or individuals who may see and/or overhear it, directly or indirectly, in the work place and in work-related environments.  Further, the commitment of the District will be such that comments, gestures, or disrespectful behaviors which are vulgar or obscene or which denigrate others on the basis of race, color, national origin, religion, sex, age, disability, sexual orientation, genetic information or any other applicable status protected by federal, state or local law will not be tolerated.

Both paid and volunteer staff will enjoy working in a respectful environment that does not cause or allow conditions which constitute a hostile or bullying work environment and/or unfair, undignified, unsafe, unlawful, unethical, derogatory, disrespectful, demeaning, malicious in nature, unnecessarily intrusive (verbal or physical) or which fail to provide appropriate confidentiality and privacy.  Upon hire, all District staff will be required to complete the District's mandatory Respectful Workplace training and may be required to repeat the training as directed by the District

All employees, similarly, have the responsibility to conduct themselves in a manner befitting the profession and important work of an educational institution and to report to a Supervising Administrator and/or Human Resources Administrator any conduct that does not support a respectful workplace.  No reprisals or retaliation shall be allowed to occur as a result of good faith reporting under this policy.