This morning, the Council moved out of committee a bill that would officially create the Office of the Employee Ombud to provide assistance to city employees dealing with work-related discrimination or harassment.
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Notes from today’s Council meetings
Here’s what happened at today’s Council Briefing and Full Council meetings today.
Continue readingChanges to sexual harassment code advance out of committee
This morning the City Council once more took up some proposed changes to the city’s anti-discrimination code to make explicit prohibitions against sexual harassment and extend the statute of limitations for filing a complaint. After making a further amendment, the bill was voted out of committee but put on a slow train to full Council approval to allow for some additional analysis and community outreach.
Continue readingCouncil to consider changes to discrimation and sexual harassment rules
This week the City Council will take up some proposed changes to the city’s laws prohibiting discrimination by explicitly broadening the definition to include sexual harassment and extending the time allowed for filing charges.
Continue readingSexism, harassment, and toxic HR departments in Seattle city government
After a week of outstanding reporting by Crosscut on accusations of sexism, harassment, and dysfunctional and “toxic” HR departments in the city bureaucracy, today Mayor Jenny Durkan announced how she would be addressing the issues. Durkan has an enormous mess to clean up.
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