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- Issue title, Accommodations for Religious Observances. Issue description, Not accommodating the religious observances and practices of students or other employees when it would not create an undue hardship. Click, or press enter to select this issue.
- Issue title, Bias Incidents. Issue description, A bias incident is a speech, act, or harassing action that targets, threatens, or attacks an individual or group because of their actual or perceived race, color, national origin, ethnicity, religious affiliation, sex, gender identity, disability, or sexual orientation that is perpetrated against a student in violation of the student conduct code. Bias incidents and hate crimes involving only students will be adjudicated through the office of student life and/or referred to federal, state, or local authorities. Click, or press enter to select this issue.
- Issue title, Conflict of Interest. Issue description, A situation in which a person or a family member has a financial interest or non financial interest that may compromise, or provide the incentive to compromise, the behavior in the conduct of the person’s duties at the institution, the person’s influence on decisions that the institution may make, or the person’s influence over his or her associates outside the institution. A conflict of interest may be real, potential or apparent. 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, 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, Improper and/or excessive use of work time for personal business, interest, advantage, or gain. Click, or press enter to select this issue.
- Issue title, Violence or Threat. Issue description, 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.
- Issue title, Other Human Resource Matters. Issue description, Other matters of concern not specifically outlined above. Click, or press enter to select this issue.
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