POLICY ON DISCRIMINATION AND HARASSMENT
The Area III (Lane County) JATC designated in the State of Oregon as MA-3019
reaffirms its’ policy and absolute support for Affirmative action and Equal
employment Opportunity as contained in the Oregon State Apprenticeship training
Council Mission Statement. Further, the committee asserts its policy of no
tolerance for discrimination, sexual harassment, or harassment of any form in
the work environment. The committee recognizes that harassment of any sort in
the work environment detracts from the goal of optimizing the utilization of
apprentices and trainees: their skills and talents. Discrimination, sexual
harassment, and harassment of any form is disruptive to good business practices
and undermines the integrity of the employment relationship.
Discrimination (and sexual harassment or harassment of any sort) is defined
as an act which is directed at an individual because of their protected class
status under the law and has a negative impact on an apprentices’ program
status, progress or completion. Additionally, guidelines established by the
Equal Opportunity commission provide that verbal or physical conduct of a sexual
nature may constitute harassment when:
- Submission to such conduct is made either explicitly or implicitly a termor
condition of an individual’s employment
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Submission to or rejection of such conduct by an individual is used as the
basesfor employment decisions affecting such individual; or
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Such conduct has the purpose or effect of unreasonably interfering with an individual’s work performance or creating an intimidating, hostile, or
offensive working environment.
Any person who believes themselves to be subjected to harassment
or intimidation is strongly urged and encouraged, to promptly bring such
incident(s) to the immediate attention of the individual employer
representative, member of the JATC, the Apprenticeship coordinator, or
their agent. All such complaints will be treated with dignity and in the
strictest confidence and will be promptly investigated.
If a complaint is found to be valid by this committee, the option it will
exercise can include the following disciplinary actions:
- Employer- revocation of their training agent status, and/or
establishment of a probationary period of a determined length of time
and/or prohibiting any employer during their probationary period from
engaging additional apprentices or employing apprentices.
- Apprentices- such disciplinary actions as determined appropriate
up to and including cancellation from the program.
- Individuals associated with the program- such action as may be determined
appropriate up to and including prohibition from involvement with apprentices
for whom the committee is responsible.
