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Few have faith in the Michigan Legislature’s sexual harassment and discrimination policies. Can that be fixed?
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Sen. Stephanie Chang, D-Detroit, stands for a portrait in the Lansing Capitol building on Tuesday April, 20, 2021 in Michigan. Nicole Hester/ MLive.comNicole Hester/ MLive.com
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Like other employers around the country, Michigan’s two legislative chambers have anti-harassment and discrimination policies in place aimed at giving the myriad of staff helping the Capitol function a means to report and resolve inappropriate behavior.
But the House and Senate, in many ways, operate differently than an average workplace. The “workplace” might be the Capitol, a lawmaker’s Lansing or district office, a conference, an extracurricular event, a downtown bar. Late nights in close quarters abound on busy session days. There’s frequent interaction between staff and people outside the purview of the House and Senate business off
The policy is expected to go into effect Monday.
The Senate’s new policy extends protections to visitors, such as constituents, lobbyists, vendors, contractors, reporters and anyone that is on or within Senate property.
That makes senators or staffers subject to disciplinary action if visitors are harassed and file complaints with the Senate Business Office.
“It may not completely solve everything, but I think the goal is to obviously make improvements and to get us further towards a goal,” Chang said. “Ultimately, you can’t completely change a culture from policy, but we hope that it ll be much improved.”
The new policy also spells out the process to report discrimination or sexual harassment. The Senate Business Office has created a flowchart to explain all the steps, which includes a complaint investigation by the director of the office.
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