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Anti-Harassment Policy
Montana NRCS Anti-Harassment Policy Statement
As your State Conservationist, I am committed to providing a working
environment that is free from sexual and nonsexual harassment. It is essential
that the Montana Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) worksite be a
place that employees can work without harassment or fear of harassment.
I will not tolerate any sort of harassment. NRCS should maintain worksites
that are conductive to the completion of our mission. When a worksite is
compromised by a hostile atmosphere, we all lose the ability to achieve our work
goals. Because a majority of our employees are providing field assistance, we
consider our "workplace" to include the office, the vehicles we drive to field
sites, and even the fields and forests we work in.
We must uphold a system of personnel management that ensures high standards
of honesty, integrity, impartiality, and conduct.
Sexual harassment is one particular form of misconduct that compromises these
standards. It weakens the employment relationship, debilitates morale, and
jeopardizes productivity. Any NRCS employee who uses implicit or explicit
coercive sexual behavior in the worksite is engaging in sexual harassment. This
includes deliberate or repeated unsolicited verbal comments, gestures, or
physical contact that are unwelcome or that interfere with work productivity.
Harassment includes:
- Slurs, negative stereotyping, jokes, threatening, intimidating or
hostile acts that relate to race, color, religion, ethnicity, national
origin, gender, political beliefs, sexual orientation, age, disability,
marital, or familial status; and
- Written, electronic, or graphic material that denigrates or shows
hostility or aversion towards an individual or group because of race, color,
religion, ethnicity, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age,
disability, marital, or familial status.
I reiterate sexual or nonsexual harassment will not be tolerated in this
state. Any such behavior will be examined immediately and any employee found to
have harassed another individual will be subject to disciplinary action.
/s/
JOYCE SWARTZENDRUBER
State Conservationist
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