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Immersive Sexual Harassment Training – The Experience

By R. Makana Risser Chai

Imagine logging on for your employer’s mandatory sexual harassment training. You feel a familiar sense of dread—you’ve done it before, you know this already, and there are countless other tasks…

Harassment, HR Law Training & Investigations, Sexual Harassment

Court rules calling women “sensitive flowers” shows gender bias

By R. Makana Risser Chai

A woman in New York City brought a claim of gender discrimination. She alleged that her supervisor insulted and excluded her, concealed information from her, and denied her requests for…

Harassment, Sexual Harassment

Be Fair to Men Accused of Sexual Harassment, Court Rules

By R. Makana Risser Chai

In the #MeToo environment, good employers are committed to giving fair hearings to victims of sexual harassment. But a court decision makes clear that fairness works both ways—the accused must…

Harassment, HR Law Training & Investigations, Sexual Harassment

Sexual Harassment is Prevented with Tools

By R. Makana Risser Chai

When it comes to preventing sexual harassment, bullying, and disrespect, people need more than policies and platitudes. Training alone isn’t enough. “Tools trump training” according to Marcus Buckingham, author of…

Harassment, Sexual Harassment

Sexual Harassment and Aloha

By R. Makana Risser Chai

Sexual harassment training takes skill to be effective. The other day I facilitated a Train-the-Trainer for experienced sexual harassment trainers. There were people from Hawaii, the continental US, Guam, American…

Harassment, Sexual Harassment

Sexual Harassment HR, Attorney, and Bystander Fail

By R. Makana Risser Chai

Sexual harassment sometimes is very obvious, yet HR, attorneys, and bystanders fail to take appropriate action. In a case decided in 2019, two women who worked at a law firm…

Harassment, Sexual Harassment

Anti-harassment training in the era of #MeToo

By R. Makana Risser Chai

Since #MeToo exploded in October 2017, many employers have been thinking about updating their anti-harassment training. If you haven't made changes to your anti-harassment program lately, now is the time.…

Harassment, HR Law Training & Investigations, Sexual Harassment

New case: Locker Room Talk Not Sexual Harassment!?!

By R. Makana Risser Chai

This company won the lawsuit, but they lost in so many other ways: with current and potential customers, current and potential employees, lost time, productivity, and attorneys fees. The lesson:…

Harassment, Sexual Harassment

How Far Back Can Sexual Harassment Claims Go?

By R. Makana Risser Chai

With Senator Dan Inouye being accused in 2018 of sexual harassment that happened in the 1980s, celebrity #MeToo complaints going back 30 years, and Bill Cosby being tried for an…