All employees of House To Home Moving, it’s applicants, and independent contractors (“workers”) must be treated with respect and dignity. House To Home Moving is committed to providing an atmosphere free of harassment and discrimination based on such factors as race, color, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding or related medical conditions), gender identity or expression, religious creed, marital status, registered domestic partner status, age, national origin or ancestry, physical or mental disability, medical condition including genetic characteristics or information, sexual orientation, veteran status, or any other characteristic made unlawful by applicable federal, state, or local laws.
Harassment and discrimination are against the law. House To Home Moving strongly disapproves of and will not tolerate unlawful harassment or discrimination of its workers by managers, supervisors, co-workers, independent contractors or members of the public. Similarly, House To Home Moving will not tolerate unlawful harassment or discrimination by its workers against others with whom House To Home Moving has a business, service, or professional relationship. Because it is difficult to determine whether the conduct is unlawful, House To Home Moving strives to eliminate any inappropriate and/or disrespectful conduct based on the characteristics identified above, even if such conduct does not violate the law.
Verbal, physical, and visual conduct that creates an intimidating, offensive, or uncomfortable working environment or interferes with work performance violates this policy. This may include, for example, racial or sexist slurs, ethnic or sexist jokes, posting offensive statements, posters or cartoons based on a characteristic listed above.
Sexual harassment under this policy includes making any unwelcome advances and/or verbal, physical, or visual conduct of a sexual nature, as well as offering employment benefits in exchange for sexual favors or threatening reprisals after a negative response to a sexual advance. It includes many forms of offensive behavior, such as gender-based harassment of a person of the same sex as the harasser. Some examples of conduct that may violate this policy include demeaning sexual remarks, leering, making sexual gestures, displaying sexually suggestive objects or pictures, making or using derogatory sexual comments, epithets, slurs, or jokes, comments about an individual’s body, touching, impeding, or blocking movements.
Complaint Procedure
If you believe you have been subjected to or witnessed conduct that violates this policy, you should immediately report such conduct to your supervisor or CEO. If you are not comfortable reporting to either of those individuals, report the conduct to another supervisor. Your complaint should be specific and include the names of the individuals involved and the names of any witnesses.
House To Home Moving will promptly investigate and attempt to resolve the situation. Every complaint will be taken seriously and investigated thoroughly. If suspected violations of this policy are not reported, they cannot be investigated. Workers are expected to participate in internal investigations and may not interfere with the complaint procedure. Everyone’s cooperation is crucial.
If House To Home Moving determines this policy has been violated, we will take appropriate and effective remedial action to address the situation and deter any future inappropriate conduct; this may include disciplinary action up to and including termination. House To Home Moving will not retaliate against you for bringing a good faith complaint under this policy, or for reporting such misconduct or cooperating in an investigation and will not knowingly permit retaliation against you by anyone else. If you believe someone has violated this no-retaliation provision, you should immediately notify any of the persons named above.
In addition to these internal policies and procedures, the State of California Department of Fair Employment and Housing (DFEH) provides additional information regarding the legal remedies and complaint process available through the government agencies. If you believe you have been unlawfully harassed or discriminated or retaliated against, you may file a complaint or obtain additional information from the DFEH. The phone number for the local DFEH office is located at www.dfeh.ca.gov.