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The way that the legislature "fixed" their harassment & discrimination rules after the BOLI lawsuit has made the reporting process WORSE for staff. If you report harassment conducted by any partisan employee (most of the building) the findings are legally required to be public.
Meaning: if I was a staffer & wanted to report another staffer for, say, repeated lewd comments about my looks, to report I would have to consent to an entire panel of legislators debating the facts of the case and deciding on any actions to take rather than HR/equity officer.
The chilling effect this has on reporting will be huge. The legislature's reporting process was already so draconian that in 2015 I was the FIRST EVER PERSON to file a formal complaint.
If the system was that good at silencing victims of harassment *before* these changes that made it even harder for women and others to come forward, you can imagine how bad it must be now.
@hanlau has proved many times over how brave she is for standing up to injustices in her life, and my heart goes out to her that she is once again ensnared in a system designed to make her life difficult.
Post BOLI complaint it was clear that legislative leadership cared more about the optics of making a change than they did about really doing the work to improve the system.
They made no effort to have their new rules meaningfully vetted by employment attorneys and HR professionals. The rules they passed shows that they cared more about protecting political power than they did about the recommendations from professionals.
So, no. The legislature absolutely does not have sufficient protections for victims of harassment. They deserve so much better. #orpol #orleg
