Section 3A:
Employers' policies against sexual harassment; preparation of model policy; education and training programs
Section 3A. (a) All employers, employment agencies and labor organizations shall promote a workplace free of sexual harassment.
(b) Every employer shall:
(1) adopt a policy against sexual harassment which shall include:
(i) a statement that sexual harassment in the workplace is unlawful;
(ii) a statement that it is unlawful to retaliate against an employee for filing a complaint of sexual harassment or for cooperating in an investigation of a complaint for sexual harassment;
(iii) a description and examples of sexual harassment;
(iv) a statement of the range of consequences for employees who are found to have committed sexual harassment;
(v) a description of the process for filing internal complaints about sexual harassment and the work addresses and telephone numbers of the person or persons to whom complaints should be made; and
(vi) the identity of the appropriate state and federal employment discrimination enforcement agencies, and directions as to how to contact such agencies.
(2) provide annually to all employees an individual written copy of the employer's policy against sexual harassment; provided, however, that a new employee shall be provided such a copy at the time of his employment.
(c) The commission shall prepare and provide to employers subject to this section a model policy and poster consistent with federal and state statutes and regulations, which may be used by employers for the purposes of this section.