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• Issue title, Conflict of Interest. Issue description, Concerns related to violations of conflict of interest policies governing researchers. Click, or press enter to select this issue.
• Issue title, Discrimination or Harassment. Issue description, Uninvited and unwelcome verbal or physical conduct directed at an employee because of his or her sex, religion, ethnicity or beliefs. (Examples include: bias in hiring, bias in assignments, wrongful termination, bias in promotions, bias in educational decisions, unfair compensation, inappropriate language). Use of retaliation or retribution. Click, or press enter to select this issue.
• Issue title, EEOC or ADA Matters. Issue description, Failure to meet requirements as defined by Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) or American Disability Act (ADA). (Examples include: Nepotism, proper disability access) Click, or press enter to select this issue.
• Issue title, Employee Benefits Abuses. Issue description, Improper, misleading or deceptive actions /statements, falsification of records, or misrepresentation of actual conditions related to institution benefits plans, including health and supplemental insurance plans, tuition benefits and sick or other paid time-off programs. Click, or press enter to select this issue.
• Issue title, Employee Misconduct. Issue description, Involves any employee conduct that is in violation of the institution's code of conduct, ethics policy, faculty handbook or any other printed materials that constitute employee conduct. Time abuse concerns about an employee or manager who are falsifying his/her work hours. Click, or press enter to select this issue.
• Issue title, Nepotism. Issue description, Patronage bestowed by public officers in consideration of a family relationship and not merit. Click, or press enter to select this issue.
• Issue title, Offensive or Inappropriate Communication. Issue description, The use of inflammatory, derogatory, unduly critical or insulting communication to a staff person, faculty, administrator, alumni or student. Click, or press enter to select this issue.
• Issue title, Sexual Harassment. Issue description, The making of unwanted and offensive sexual advances or of sexually offensive remarks or acts, especially by one in a superior or supervisory position or when acquiescence to such behavior is a condition of continued employment, promotion, or satisfactory evaluation. Click, or press enter to select this issue.
• Issue title, Threat or Inappropriate Supervisor Directive. Issue description, Improper use of supervisory authority in response to employee taking action or refusing to take action. Inappropriate management practices. Click, or press enter to select this issue.
• Issue title, Time Abuse. Issue description, Concerns about an employee or manager who is falsifying his/her work hours. Click, or press enter to select this issue.
• Issue title, Unsafe working conditions. Issue description, Failure of meeting requirements needed to perform all duties in a reasonably secure environment. Potential areas of harm. (Examples include: environmental damage, OSHA, EPA, supervisor directive) Includes a failure to inform supervisors of the failure to meet the requirements. Click, or press enter to select this issue.
• Issue title, Violence or Threat. Issue description, Violence is an expression of the intention to inflict evil, injury, or damage to a person or their property. (Examples include: direct, veiled, conditional, violent) Click, or press enter to select this issue.
• Issue title, Workers Compensation or Disability Benefits Abuses. Issue description, Observation of physical activity of employees receiving disability or other compensation benefits from the institution in contradiction to the degree of the disability certified by medical personnel. Click, or press enter to select this issue.
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