Each supervisor has an affirmative duty to maintain a workplace
free from sexual harassment and to assure all employees that they
are not required to endure insulting, degrading, or exploitative sexual
harassment.
All employees shall be expected to comply with this policy and
shall take appropriate measures to ensure that such behavior does
not occur.
Any employee who is found, after appropriate investigation,
to have engaged in sexual harassment of another employee; or filed
a complaint of sexual harassment containing false factual allegations;
or abused the complaint process by filing repeated unfounded sexual
harassment complaints; or filed a sexual harassment complaint with
the intent to retaliate against another employee, shall be subject
to appropriate disciplinary action depending on the circumstances,
up to and including dismissal. No disciplinary action more severe
than a written warning shall be taken without consulting the County
Administrator and the Director of Personnel. The County Administrator
shall have the right to overrule a department's decision regarding
discipline at any level. Disciplined employees shall have grievance
rights in accordance with this chapter.
There shall be no retaliation on the part of the County against
the complainant or any witness for making a report of sexual harassment.
