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Executive Order 89-01 Sexual Harassment

Governor Booth Gardner issued Executive Order 89-01 to remind agencies and employees that sexual harassment is unacceptable and against public policy. The order defines sexual harassment and directs agencies to update policies prohibiting it, respond promptly to complaints, conduct employee training, and inform employees of their rights to file complaints. Agencies must disseminate an anti-harassment policy, address how they will handle employee concerns, identify sanctions, and comply with the Department of Personnel's affirmative action program guidelines. This order supersedes a prior order on the topic from 1983.

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Executive Order 89-01 Sexual Harassment

Governor Booth Gardner issued Executive Order 89-01 to remind agencies and employees that sexual harassment is unacceptable and against public policy. The order defines sexual harassment and directs agencies to update policies prohibiting it, respond promptly to complaints, conduct employee training, and inform employees of their rights to file complaints. Agencies must disseminate an anti-harassment policy, address how they will handle employee concerns, identify sanctions, and comply with the Department of Personnel's affirmative action program guidelines. This order supersedes a prior order on the topic from 1983.

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EXECUTIVE ORDER 89-01

SEXUAL HARASSMENT

Sexual harassment is unacceptable in the work place and I am issuing this Order to serve as a
reminder to agencies and employees, plus to ensure that we continue to emphasize policies
against sexual harassment.

It is the public policy of the State to provide and maintain a working environment free from
sexual harassment for its employees and all citizens participating in State programs. Sexual
harassment is a form of sex discrimination and is an unlawful employment practice under RCW
49.60 (Washington State Law Against Discrimination) and (Federal Law) Title VII of the Civil
Rights Act of 1964.

Sexual harassment occurs through unwelcome sexual advances, requests for sexual favors, and
other verbal or physical conduct of a sexual nature when:

A. Submission to such conduct is made, either explicitly or implicitly, a term or condition of an


individual's employment;

B. Submission to or rejection of such conduct by an individual is used as the basis for


employment decisions affecting such individual; or

C. 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.

The best tools for the elimination of sexual harassment are prevention by education and effective
intervention.

NOW, THEREFORE, I, Booth Gardner, Governor of the State of Washington, by the authority
vested in me, do hereby order and direct each agency to:

A. Update or develop and disseminate among all agency employees and contractors a policy that:

1. defines and prohibits sexual harassment in the workplace;

2. includes procedures which describe how the agency will address concerns of
employees who are affected by sexual harassment in the workplace; and

3. identifies appropriate sanctions and/or disciplinary actions;

B. Respond promptly and effectively to sexual harassment concerns;

C. Conduct training and education for all employees in order to prevent and eliminate sexual
harassment in the organization;
D. Inform employees of their right to file a complaint with the Washington State Human Rights
Commission under RCW 49.60, or with the Federal Equal Employment Opportunity
Commission under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

The Department of Personnel shall incorporate into their Affirmative Action Program
Guidelines, criteria addressing compliance with this Executive Order. This Order shall supersede
a prior Executive Order 83-12.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto Additional


set my hand and caused the seal of the State
of Washington to be affixed at Olympia
this 20th day of January A.D., Nineteen hundred and eighty-nine.

By:

_________________________
BOOTH GARDNER
Governor of Washington

BY THE GOVERNOR:
Secretary of State

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