AGE
Definition
Harassment constituting employment discrimination prohibited by Public Law 90-202 (discrimination on the basis of age when the aggrieved individual is at least 40 years of age).
Age Discrimination Products
Age Discrimination Scenario #3: Breakroom Blast
➤ Facilitation Guide: Breakroom Blast
BULLYING
Definition
Per DoDI 1020.04 Harassment Prevention and Response for DoD Civilian Employees:
Bullying - A form of harassment that involves aggressive acts intended to harm, either physically or psychologically, another person without a proper governmental purpose but with a nexus to employment. Bullying includes singling out an individual from his or her coworkers for ridicule because he or she is considered different or weak. It often involves an imbalance of power between the aggressor and the individual. Bullying does not include a properly directed command or organizational activities that serve a proper military or other governmental purpose. Bullying can be conducted through the use of electronic devices or communications, and by other means including social media, as well as in person.
Bullying is evaluated by a reasonable person standard and includes, but is not limited to, the following conduct when performed without a proper governmental purpose:
Physically striking another person in any manner, or threatening to do the same. Intimidating, teasing, or taunting another person. Oral or written berating (including electronic medium) of another person with the purpose of belittling or humiliating. Encouraging another person to engage in illegal, harmful, demeaning, or dangerous acts. Playing abusive or malicious tricks. Piercing, branding, handcuffing, duct taping, tattooing, shaving, greasing, or painting another person. Subjecting another person to excessive or abusive use of water. Forcing another person to consume food, alcohol, drugs, or any other substance. Degrading or damaging another’s property or reputation. Soliciting, coercing, or knowingly permitting another person to solicit or coerce acts of bullying.
Bullying Products
➤ Civilian Bullying Fact Sheet References
➤ Civilian Bullying Quiz
➤ Civilian Bullying Focus Group Questions
COLOR
Definition
Harassment constituting employment discrimination prohibited by Title 7 of Public Law 88-352 (discrimination on the basis of color.
Posters
Click on the poster image(s) to download the full-sized product.
CRIMINAL ACTS
Definition
Criminal activity, either reported in conjunction with a harassment allegation or identified during the process of responding to the harassment allegation, must be immediately reported to the appropriate law enforcement agency. The DoD Component’s process to respond to harassment allegations may occur collaterally only if it does not hinder the criminal investigation.
The appropriate Military Criminal Investigative Organization or the Pentagon Force Protection Agency will immediately notify the Department of Justice, in accordance with DoDI 5525.07, of criminal allegations involving perpetrators who are not subject to Chapter 47, Title 10, U.S.C. (also known and referred to in this issuance as “the Uniform Code of Military Justice”) when the alleged crime occurred on a military installation or the Pentagon Reservation.
Reports and disclosures of sexual assault by DoD civilian employees who are adult military dependents, members of the Reserve Component, or stationed outside the continental United States are covered by DoDD 6495.02, which contains the policy for eligibility for Restricted (confidential) and Unrestricted reporting and Sexual Assault.
Posters
Click on the poster image(s) to download the full-sized product.
DISABILITY
Definition
Harassment constituting employment discrimination prohibited by Section 701 of Title 29, U.S.C. (discrimination on the basis of disability).
HAZING
Definition
Per DoDI 1020.04 Harassment Prevention and Response for DoD Civilian Employees
Hazing - A form of harassment that involves conduct, without a proper governmental purpose but with a nexus to employment, intended to physically or psychologically injure or create a risk of physical or psychological injury to a person for the purpose of: initiation into, admission into, affiliation with, change in status or position within, or a condition for continued membership in any military or DoD organization. Hazing does not include a properly directed command or organizational activities that serve a proper military or other governmental purpose. Hazing can be conducted through the use of electronic devices or communications, and by other means including social media, as well as in person.
Hazing is evaluated by a reasonable person standard and includes, but is not limited to, the following when performed without a proper military or other governmental purpose:
Any form of initiation or congratulatory act that involves physically striking another person in any manner, or threatening to do the same. Oral or written berating (including electronic medium) of another person with the purpose of belittling or humiliating. Encouraging or coercing another person to engage in demeaning, illegal, harmful, or dangerous acts.
Playing abusive or malicious tricks. Piercing, branding, handcuffing, duct taping, tattooing, shaving, greasing, or painting another person. Subjecting another person to excessive or abusive use of water. Forcing another person to consume food, alcohol, drugs, or any other substance. Soliciting, coercing, or knowingly permitting another person to solicit or coerce acts of hazing.
Hazing Products
➤ Hazing Overview
➤ Hazing Focus Group Questions
➤ Hazing Quiz
NATIONAL ORIGIN
Definition
Harassment constituting employment discrimination prohibited by Title 7 of Public Law 88-352 (discrimination on the basis of national origin).
RACE
Definition
Harassment constituting employment discrimination prohibited by Title 7 of Public Law 88-352 (discrimination on the basis of race).
Racial Discrimination Products
➤ Focus Group Questions
RELIGION
Definition
Harassment constituting employment discrimination prohibited by Title 7 of Public Law 88-352 (discrimination on the basis of religion).
RELIGIOUS AWARENESS/ACCOMMODATION
Religious Awareness and Accommodation
The individual faith group snapshot videos located at the link below are provided by practicing members from various religious groups. They are intended to orient viewers to basic religious aspects/beliefs and raise awareness of the referenced group for the purpose of better understanding the religious practices of others. These individual perspectives should not be interpreted as official or final religious doctrine or as the official views of, or endorsed by, the United States Government, the Department of Defense, or the Defense Equal Opportunity Management Institute
The link will take you to a calendar displaying the primary sacred times for many world religions. Calendar provided by Interfaith-Calendar.org for convenience and may not include all religious observances.
➤ Interfaith Calendar
REPRISAL
Definition
A form of retaliation that involves taking, threatening, or recommending taking an unfavorable personnel action (demote, separate, treat unfairly, etc.); or withholding, threatening, or recommending withholding a favorable personnel action, for making, preparing to make, or being perceived as engaged in the anti-harassment process.
Posters
RETALIATION
Definition
Retaliation encompasses illegal, impermissible, or hostile actions taken by a Service members' chain of command, peers, or coworkers as a result of making or being suspected of making a protected communication in accordance with DoDD 7050.66. Retaliation for reporting a criminal offense can occur in several ways, including reprisal. Investigation of complaints of non-criminal retaliatory actions other than reprisal will be processed consistent with Service-specific regulations. In addition to reprisal, defined in Paragraph 3.7, additional retaliatory behaviors include ostracism, maltreatment, and criminal acts for a retaliatory purpose in connection with an alleged sex-related offense or sexual harassment; or for performance of duties concerning an alleged sex-related offense of sexual harassment.
Retaliation is conduct that punishes a DoD civilian employee for asserting the right to be free from harassment in the workplace. Retaliatory behaviors include, but are not limited to, reprisal, ostracism, maltreatment, and criminal acts for a retaliatory purpose. Retaliation includes illegal, impermissible, or hostile actions taken with the knowledge of management against DoD civilian employees for: Filing or being a witness in a charge, report, inquiry, or lawsuit; Communicating with a supervisor or manager about discrimination, including harassment; Answering questions during a DoD Component inquiry of alleged harassment; Refusing to follow orders that would result in harassment; or Resisting sexual advances or intervening to protect others.
For detailed definitions of the full range of retaliatory behaviors, see the RPRS Implementation Plan.
Retaliation Products
➤ Retaliation Prevention Strategy
STALKING
Definition
Per DoDI 1020.04 Harassment Prevention and Response for DoD Civilian Employees:
Stalking: A form of harassment that includes repeated harassing, unwanted, or threatening conduct that would cause a reasonable person to fear for his or her safety or the safety of others. Stalking may occur through use of technology including, but not limited to, email, telephone, voicemail, text messaging, drones, cameras, microphones, and use of electronic tracking and monitoring and social networking sites.
Stalking conduct may include, but it is not limited to:
Following, spying on, or waiting for an individual in places such as home, school, work, or recreational places. Leaving unwanted items. Making direct or indirect threats to harm an individual, an individual’s children, relatives, friends, pets, or property. Posting information or spreading rumors about an individual on the internet, in a public place, or by word of mouth. Obtaining or using personal information about an individual accessed through public records, using internet search services, hiring private investigators, going through an individual’s garbage, following an individual, or contacting an individual’s friends, family, work, or neighbors. In most state and federal jurisdictions, to include that of the Military Departments under the Uniform Code of Military Justice, stalking is a crime.
Stalking Products
➤ Stalking Overview
➤ Stalking Fact Sheet
➤ Stalking Focus Group Questions
➤ Stalking Strategy Sheet
➤ Stalking Quiz
Posters
Click on the poster image(s) to download the full-sized product.
