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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 as
positive and conducive to the accomplishment of our workload as possible. This
means any sort of harassment will not be tolerated. We must uphold a system of
personnel management that ensures high standards of honesty, integrity,
impartiality, and conduct.
This is an annual reminder that sexual harassment is one particular
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 in
accordance with the established policy.
/s/
DAVE WHITE
State Conservationist
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