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Pyramid Security Group
Pyramid Security Group has a strict policy against all forms of discrimination, harassment, and sexual harassment in the workplace. Employees have a legal right to a workplace free of discrimination, harassment, and sexual harassment. Negative comments and actions based on any legally protected characteristics of a fellow employee are prohibited. Any Pyramid Security employee that is investigated and is proven to have engaged in any activity that can be legally defined as harassment would have their employment terminated immediately. Employees not directly involved in the act but are aware of it taking place and fail to report the incident would face disciplinary actions.
Sexual harassment is a form of harassment that involves the use of sex as a tool of emotional, verbal, mental and physical abuse from one person to another. Sexual abuse is very common everywhere, it is especially prevalent in the workplace. Forms of sexual harassment include but are not limited to
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Offering services or making a promise to provide a service or services in exchange for sexual favors.
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Promising employment in exchange for sexual favors.
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Using sexual favors as a basis for employment.
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Unwanted verbal or physical sexual advances.
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The use of emotionally, physically and sexually degrading language or any other derogatory comments in the workplace.
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Electronic or physical sharing of sexual or obscene emails, images, messages or letters in the workplace.
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Retaliation from a hiring manager, supervisor or business owner for turning down sexual advances.
The use of electronic devices, internet or social media like Instagram, Facebook, Twitter or Whatsapp messenger by an employee to sexually harass another employee constitutes as harassment and sexual harassment whether it takes place in the workplace or outside the workplace. Employees are advised to immediately report to a supervisor or senior management any co-worker that uses social media, emails, text messages or phone calls as a tool to harass other co-workers. As long as it involves a co-worker any incident of harassment or sexual harassment should be reported to a supervisor or senior manager immediately. All employees of Pyramid Security Group are required to cooperate with all investigations of harassment and sexual harassment in the workplace.
A sexual harassment claim can be successfully investigated only if there are credible witnesses to aide and assist in the investigation and fact gathering process. Pyramid Security employees can report sexual harassment, suspected sexual harassment or any form of harassment by sending an email to our Human Resources Department at hr@pyramidsecuritygroup.net or in case of an emergency, employees can dial our emergency response number at 000-000-0000 to make a report of an incident. Employees can ask questions about sexual harassment or any forms of harassment by sending an email to the above email address. Senior managers, account managers, and supervisors must document and report all complaints of harassment and sexual harassment that is brought to their notice. Our emergency response team would handle all incident reports discreetly and with urgency.
Pyramid Security Group would thoroughly investigate any harassment or sexual harassment claim. Investigations would be swift and discreet. Identities of the accusers or victims would be protected. During our investigation, we would provide emotional counseling and support to any victim of sexual harassment or any form of harassment in the workplace. Victims or accusers would be carried along every step of the way during our investigation process. When the investigation is concluded, we would inform the accusers or victims of the outcome of the investigation and any final decision taken on the matter.
Pyramid Security Group prohibits any form of retaliation against an employee that reports sexual harassment or suspected sexual harassment in the workplace. Retaliation is any action taken by a superior or the accused that can discourage sexual harassment or harassment victim in the workplace from coming forward to make or substantiate a sexual harassment claim. Retaliation in any form is unlawful. Retaliation outside the workplace also constitutes as a breach of federal, state and New York City law.
Employees that have encouraged a co-worker to report sexual harassment or any form of harassment, employees that have made reports of sexual harassment or harassment of a co-worker, employees that have reported incidents of sexual harassment either verbally or through incident reporting, employees that have reported incidents of sexual harassment or any form of harassment with any government agency, employees that have assisted in legal proceedings involving workplace harassment or sexual harassment are protected legally from retaliation through the New York State Human Rights Law. As long as incidents of workplace harassment and sexual harassments are reported in good faith, workers rights would always be legally protected. Retaliation of any kind would be thoroughly investigated and any senior manager, manager, supervisor or employee found to have retaliated against an accuser, eye witness or party to any sexual harassment claim would have their employment terminated immediately. It is extremely important that employees are free to report harassment incidents without any fear of retaliation.
Sexual harassment interferes with the work performance of an employee and creates a hostile work environment. When an exhaustive investigation has been conducted on a harassment or sexual harassment claim, all parties found to have violated the firm's sexual harassment policy would have their employment with the firm terminated immediately.
On May 9, 2018, The Mayor of New York City, Mayor Bill de Blasio signed the STOP SEXUAL HARASSMENT IN NYC ACT. This law is aimed at addressing and preventing sexual harassment in the workplace. Under Local Law 96 of 2018, employers with 15 or more employees are required to conduct annual anti-sexual harassment training for all employees. Effective April 2019, employers must ensure all employees have trained annually, beginning with the calendar year 2019, and every year thereafter. All Pyramid Security Group employees are required to take the New York City sexual harassment training. Pyramid Security Group also conducts its own in-house sexual harassment training. Current employees and newly hired employees are also required to attend this sexual harassment training annually. Newly hired employees must attend this training no later than their first week of hire. New York State law requires that employers of one or more employees must conduct anti-sexual harassment training for all employees. An online training course has been developed that will satisfy both the New York State and New York City anti-sexual harassment training requirements.
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In order to protect the integrity of the harassment and sexual harassment invetsigative process, we strongly discourage all Pyramid Security Group employees from making false claims. A false harassment or sexual harassment claim makes a mockery of how serious this issue is and takes away time and resources that should be dedicated to actual cases of harassment or sexual harassment. Any Pyramid Security Group employee found to have made false harassment or sexual harrassment claim would have their employemnt terminated immediately. If the false claims are egregious, Pyramid Security Group reserves the right to take appropriate legal action against the employe that mad the false claim.
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