SECNAV INSTRUCTION 5300.26D DON POLICY ON SEXUAL HARRASSMENT

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• HMC(SW/FMF)COLON

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• PURPOSE To provide a comprehensive Department
  of the Navy policy for all personnel on the
  identification, prevention, elimination of sexual
  harassment and to establish regulations to
  enforce policy.

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• The economic costs of sexual harassment are
  significant.
• Sexual harassment is prohibited! ZERO TOLERANCE!

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• All DON Personnel will educated and trained upon
  accession (within 90 days) and annually
  thereafter.
• Individuals who believe they have been sexually
  harassed shall be provided the opportunity to
  seek resolution and redress.

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• All reported incidents of sexual harassment
  shall be investigated and resolved at the lowest
  level.

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• No individual in the DON shall
• Commit sexual harassment.
• False Accusations
• Supervisors should not condone it.

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• Military personnel of the Navy and Marine Corps
  shall be processed for administrative separation
  on the FIRST substantiated incident of sexual
  harassment.
• Action, threats or attempts to influence
  anothers career or job in exchange for sexual
  favors.
• Rewards in exchange for sexual favors.
• Physical contact of a sexual nature, if charged
  under the UCMJ.

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• Leadership is the key to eliminating all forms
  of unlawful discrimination.
• Education and training programs are in place at
  all levels within the DON.

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• Systems are in place to monitor the DONs
  progress in eliminating sexual harassment and to
  evaluate DON education and training programs.

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• DEFINITIONS
• REPRISAL Taking or threatening to take
  unfavorable personnel action.
• SEXUAL HARASSMENT A form of sex discrimination
  that involves unwelcome sexual advances, requests
  for sexual favors, and other verbal or physical
  conduct of a sexual nature.

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• For a persons behavior to be considered sexual
  harassment, it must meet three criteria BE
  UNWELCOME, SEXUAL IN NATURE, AND OCCUR OR IMPACT
  ON THE WORK ENVIRONMENT.

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• UNWELCOME BEHAVIOR
• Behavior that a person does not ask for and which
  that person considers undesirable or offensive.

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• SEXUAL IN NATURE
• Behavior which is sexual in nature is fairly easy
  to determine. Sexually explicit jokes, sexually
  suggestive pictures and talking about sex.

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• MUST OCCUR IN OR IMPACT THE WORK ENVIRONMENT.

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• When recipients are offered or denied something
  that is work-connected in return for submitting
  to or rejecting unwelcome sexual behavior, they
  have been subjected to a type of sexual
  harassment known as quid pro quo, or this for
  that.

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• EXAMPLES
• GETTING OR LOSING A JOB
• PROMOTION OR DEMOTION
• GOOD OR BAD FITREP/EVAL

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• RANGE OF BEHAVIORS
• To better explain the range of behaviors that
  may constitute sexual harassment, the traffic
  light illustration was developed. Behaviors are
  divide into three zones.

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• GREEN(GO) Not sexual harassment.
• YELLOW(CAUTION) Many people find this behavior
  unacceptable and they could be sexual harassment.
• RED(STOP) ALWAYS considered sexual harassment.

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