Non-Harassment of Employees Policy

Auburn University prohibits any form of harassment of its employees related to an employee's race, sex, color, religion, national origin, age, disability or status as a covered veteran. Any violation of this policy will be treated as a disciplinary matter. The term "HARASSMENT" includes but is not limited to slurs, jokes, other verbal, graphic or physical conduct relating to an individuals race, sex, color, religion, national origin, age, disability or status as a covered veteran. Harassment also includes unwelcome sexual advances, requests for sexual favors, and other verbal, graphic, or physical sexual conduct when:

Submission to or toleration of such conduct may implicitly or explicitly be a term or condition of employment, evaluation or participation in University activities; or
Submission or rejection of such conduct may be used as the basis for employment decisions that may affect the employee's work experience; or
Such conduct has the purpose or effect of substantially interfering with an employee's performance or creates an intimidating, hostile or offensive workplace

Violation of this policy by any EMPLOYEE shall subject that person to disciplinary action, up to and including discharge.

It is a violation of this policy to take an adverse employment action against any employee, because he/she opposed any practices they reasonably believed to be discriminatory, or filed an internal or external complaint/grievance/charge, or participated in any investigation or proceeding, in accordance with this policy.

If an employee feels that he/she is being harassed by any other employee (including co-worker, supervisor, etc) because of race, sex, color, religion, national origin, age, disability or status as a covered veteran they should at once make this known to his/her immediate supervisor. The supervisor will promptly notify the University's Office of Affirmative Action/Equal Employment Opportunity, which will see that the matter is investigated, and that, where appropriate, disciplinary action is taken. If the employee does not feel the matter can be discussed with a supervisor, the employee should notify the Office of AA/EEO and arrange for a conference to discuss the complaint.

Harassment of University Employees in connection with their work by non-employees may also be a violation of this policy. Any employee who becomes aware of any harassment of an employee by a non-employee should report such harassment to his/her supervisor or to the Office of AA/EEO, which is responsible for investigating all incidents. Appropriate action will be taken against non-employee violators of this policy.

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