NATIONAL EEO COMPLIANCE & APPEALS PROGRAMS

May 18, 2015 

VICE PRESIDENTS, AREA OPERATIONS 

SUBJECT: Poster 159, Workplace Harassment: Know Your Rights! Take Responsibility! 

Attached is the revised Poster 159, Workplace Harassment: Know Your Rights! Take Responsibilityl This poster incorporates federal laws which make it clear that an employer's anti-harassment policy should prohibit all harassment in violation of federal discrimination laws. These revisions include an updated list of harassment behaviors and information regarding an employee's right to purse a complaint involving employment matters covered by the Uniformed Service Employment and Reemployment Rights Act (USERRA). In addition, these revisions reflect recent updates to Publication 553, Employee's Guide to Understanding, Preventing, and Reporting Harassment. Please post Poster 159 in prominent locations throughout your facility (e.q., bulletin boards and swing rooms). 

To successfully identify and eliminate workplace harassment, we must make sure everyone knows what it is and what to do about it Please require your managers to provide a service talk to all employees to ensure they know their rights and take responsibility for their role in providing a work environment free of harassmenT.

Poster 159, Sexual Harassment: Know Your Rightsl Take Responsibility! dated September 2008, is now obsolete and should be removed from all bulletin boards.

You can order copies of Poster 159 from the Topeka Material Distribution Center. Please use PSN 7690-07-000-7099. You can also access Poster 159 online through the Postal Service PolicyNet website on the corporate intranet at http./Ib/ue.usps.gov/cpim; click on Posters. 

Eloise Lance 
Manager, EEO Compliance & Appeals Programs 

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