Posted on 06/19/2015 5:02:15 AM PDT by Dave346
In a disclosure that could have political implications for election campaigns, the State Department’s chief watchdog reported Thursday that worker harassment complaints have nearly tripled inside the department during the tenures of Hillary Rodham Clinton and John F. Kerry — but the department still doesn’t have mandatory training for all employees.
“A significant increase in reported harassment inquiries in the Department of State over the past few fiscal years supports the need for mandatory harassment training,” the department’s inspector general warned in an oversight report that reviewed the agency’s Office of Civil Rights.
The report states that formal harassment claims rose from 88 cases in 2011, during Mrs. Clinton’s third year as America’s top diplomat, to 248 in 2014, Mr. Kerry’s second year as secretary. Hundreds more informal complaints were lodged during the same period.
Last year, 43 percent of the new complaints alleged harassment or unfair hirings or promotions, while 38 percent raised sex discrimination or reprisals, the report said.
While the increase in claims is dramatic, OIG officials maintained that it may actually be attributed to growing knowledge and awareness among employees about sexual harassment issues and the procedures for reporting it.
But Thursday’s report also appeared to chide current Secretary of State Kerry and Mrs. Clinton — who served as secretary from January 2009 through early 2013 — for failing to order department managers to require that all employees receive both initial and regularly updated training on such issues.
In addition to roughly 13,000 career foreign service officers, the department employs some 11,000 contractors and more than 45,000 locally hired employees at embassies and diplomatic posts in nearly every corner of the world.
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I wonder how many claims of harrasment were for not toeing the Marxist Obama / Benghazi line?
Marie Harf, is that you speaking?
I would surmise that in the current regime it has become easy to WIN your complaint, get paid, and retire with a nice settlement.
I forgot to add this to my post above - “it may actually be attributed to growing knowledge and awareness among employees about sexual harassment issues and the procedures for reporting it. “
Every company I have worked for has a sexual harassment policy which was read and signed off by the employee.
Sure it's legal cover for the employer, why should a company pay out the nose for an innocent comment some employee makes.
I was once accused of sexual harassment by an female subordinate for saying to her "You look nice today"...simply a complement, I was just being nice...
Nobody needs company training to know what's wrong.
Of course they do...in many cases sexual harassment is about perception of the individual...
Get too close to female, you are pressuring her or hitting on her.
Comment on another female employee looks and the wrong person hears you...hostile work environment...
Say that something is "gay" or queer" ..wrong homo person hears you...hostile work environment...
ya...none of that requires training.
Females making complaints about hillary’s les bo friends and males complaining about kerry hitting on them?
Well, we were a team at the State Department just like we were a team in the White House.
OMG. I guess it’s good to be king.
Of course it does...you assume every guy knows what is right and what is wrong...sometimes that line can get pretty blurry...
Over the years in my career I worked in various capacities with a bunch of young guys driving soft drink trucks...Most were not married and sometimes that did not matter anyway...
I can't tell you the number of times I got a phone call from customers telling me my driver was hitting on their female personnel in the stores...
Young single guy trying to get a date with a young good looking female...shocking I know...:)
Except they were customers...big no-no...
Many times they crossed a line they didn't know even existed...or was not well defined...
Training solved that problem...
“Sexual Harassment” = L.I.F.E.R. gravy train.
The "love that dare(d) not speak its name" but now won't shut the hell up!
HOMOSEXUAL, because there's nothing GAY about it.
...worker harassment complaints have nearly tripled inside the department during the tenures of Hillary Rodham Clinton and John F. Kerry -- but the department still doesn't have mandatory training for all employees.In their defense, the huge increase isn't due to heteros.
FWIW, I have heard of several instances where same-sex lovers got sexual harassment called on each other after their date. Some of them are as nasty and treacherous to each other.
“I wonder how many claims of harrasment were for not toeing the Marxist Obama / Benghazi line?”
All but two, I’m guessing.
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