Harassment Prevention for
New York Employers

Yes, #YouToo:
How to comply with New York’s
new anti-sexual harassment laws.
Whether motivated by the public discourse resulting from the #MeToo movement or the deadlines of state and local requirements, now is the time for New York employers to act.

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Anti-Harassment: Good Faith Framework

Reducing your legal exposure requires more than simply putting your employees through sexual harassment training and posting your policy in the breakroom.

A solid harassment prevention program educates, reinforces, and demonstrates your company’s commitment to maintaining a safe and productive workplace. Compli’s Harassment Prevention Quick Start Program, developed with the EEOC’s best practices, does just that.

With the Compligo Sexual Harassment Prevention Quick Start Program you can quickly implement a comprehensive anti-harassment program that helps your dealership meet New York’s requirements and instills a “good faith” framework that fortifies your legal defense.

New York’s Program Requirements

Here’s an overview of what New York’s sexual harassment prevention laws entail.

Want more info? They’ve built out a comprehensive site to cover it.

Timing

Programs must be operational by
October 9, 2018 for NY State
April 1, 2019 for NYC

Compligo’s sexual harassment prevention program is available immediately and can be deployed in 2-3 days.

Program Oversight and Communication Tools

Effective harassment prevention efforts, and workplace culture in which harassment is not tolerated, must start with and involve the highest level of management of the company. – EEOC

Help your leaders share the importance of maintaining a harassment-free workplace using CompliView, Compli’s integrated video management platform. And compliance managers can send periodic video reminders and provide regulatory updates to the entire workforce. Ongoing communication helps harassment prevention stay top of mind.

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Policies

Employees in workplaces without policies report the highest levels of harassment. – James Gruber

In partnership with Fisher Phillips, a leading employment law firm, Compli provides the:

  • Policy Against Unlawful Harassment and Discrimination,
    and a
  • Policy Against Retaliation

These policies should be customized with content specific to your organization and reviewed by your legal counsel. Use Compligo to automate the scheduling distribution, and tracking of your policies.

Training

Effective training can reduce workplace harassment, and recognize that ineffective training can be unhelpful or even counterproductive. – EEOC

Compli provides courses for managers and employees that address ways to identify harassment in the workplace, and steps to take to prevent it. The content is engaging, interactive, and built around common harassment scenarios.

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Preventing Harassment for Supervisors

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Bullying and Violence

Workplace Harassment Prevention for Managers – Multi-State

Preventing Workplace Harassment for Employees

Conducting Workplace Investigations for HR Managers

Support for Your HR Staff

If your HR team has questions, or needs to understand legal issues related to discipline & termination, HR Support Center is here to help. Your HR staff members can chat or talk live to HR consultants and access online resources such as guidelines, checklists, Q&A, and the latest news related to harassment or other HR topics.

Consultants are well-versed on state-specific laws and can answer questions related to the new NY state harassment regulations.

 

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Auditing and Reporting Tools

Compligo provides exception reporting and executive dashboards to determine, at a glance, who has not completed the required elements of your harassment program. Also, HR staff can produce evidence in the event of a claim.

In Compligo, every activity is time-stamped and easily reportable. With this insight, you can audit your initiative to uncover deficiencies, and fix problems. This gives you an ongoing feedback loop to help constantly improve your program outcomes.

We are a bilingual company. With Compli, I can produce a one-to-four page policy in both English and Spanish. This helps our employees understand what they are signing.
Felicia Taylor
Director of Human Resources / Tricolor Automotive
We were one of the first companies to use Compli when it was introduced and we like to think of Compli as our main defense against potential liabilities.
Rob Caruthers 
Group Chief Financial Officer / Ricart Auto
I’m a big fan of the Compli Platform. It’s great for any business that has multiple locations to manage. When I came to Tricolor and realized the company already had 16 locations, as well as plans to move into California, I realized it was time to get our corporate compliance program and the accompanying paperwork under control.
Felicia Taylor
Director of HR / Tricolor Auto Group
We now know that every employee has received and signed off on required information and as a result, our overall compliance activity is more secure.
Rob Caruthers
Chief Financial Officer /  Ricart Auto Group
As we moved away from printing our own payroll checks and instead began using direct deposit, we found we no longer had a reliable way to communicate internal information, training and compliance requirements to employees. We could communicate with managers and track required training and compliance activities manually, but we still didn’t know if we were reaching each individual employee.
Rob Caruthers
Chief Financial Officer /  Ricart Auto Group
We haven’t had one legal claim materialize since we began using Compli.
Rob Caruthers
Chief Financial Officer /  Ricart Auto Group
We were one of the first companies to use Compli when it was introduced and we like to think of Compli as our main defense against potential liabilities. We have found Compli’s platform to be an effective way to standardize, document and track communication with our employees.
Rob Caruthers
Chief Financial Officer /  Ricart Auto Group
Compli has helped save us in, what might have otherwise been, some sticky situations. On a few occasions we had employees report work place injuries, and then later claim they had never been properly trained on the right policies and procedures. Well, we simply went into Complí, and found their signed policies, procedures and training documentation – complete with time and date stamps. There was no room for argument. If we had still been tracking these compliance items manually, who knows if they would have been completed properly.
Rob Caruthers
Chief Financial Officer /  Ricart Auto Group
Compli saves us hours of work, avoids process bottlenecks and makes me feel confident that all of our compliance obligations are being met.
Rob Caruthers
Chief Financial Officer /  Ricart Auto Group
With Compli’s platform, we can monitor, document and track paperwork, training, policies and procedures across departments and locations, with very little effort.
Rob Caruthers
Chief Financial Officer /  Ricart Auto Group
We haven’t had one legal claim materialize since we began using Compli. We now know that every employee has received and signed off on required information and as a result, our overall compliance activity is more secure.
Rob Caruthers
Chief Financial Officer /  Ricart Auto Group
The Compli onboarding and training process is now a part of our culture. I can’t imagine life without it.
Scott Basinger
CFO / Byers Auto Group
In the past, we would do a pretty good job of communicating when possible, but we really needed to find a central location to collect, gather, onboard and share news and requirements effectively across departments.
Scott Basinger
CFO / Byers Auto Group
Before we had Compli, when someone started at our company they’d be given a packet of information from Human Resources. At the time, we had no way of knowing whether or not that new hire completed their required training and signed off on the correct policies and forms.
Scott Basinger
CFO / Byers Auto Group
I’m a big fan of the Compli Platform. It’s great for any business that has multiple locations to manage.
Felicia Taylor
PHR Director of Human Resources / Tricolor Auto Group
Before Compli, we kept our most up-to-date onboarding packet on a shared drive. This process just wasn’t efficient. Managers would save the packet to different locations and it would become outdated or we’d get a packet back with forms or signatures missing. We were constantly chasing paper and employees.
Felicia Taylor
PHR Director of Human Resources / Tricolor Auto Group
With Compli we’ve saved over $1,500 in file supplies alone. Like any dealership, we have a great deal of turnover and would have to create the files, file them and then pull those files when the employee moved on or was terminated. Now, we don’t have to do any of that and I love it.
Felicia Taylor
PHR Director of Human Resources / Tricolor Auto Group
Honestly, Complí is an HR department’s best friend.
Felicia Taylor
PHR Director of Human Resources / Tricolor Auto Group
One of the best features of Complí’s Platform is the ‘Groups’ feature which is completely customizable. For instance, if you have a Bilingual Group in your workplace, you can assign Spanish employees to a Spanish-only Group and send just those employees policies that are written in Spanish, or even policies that only apply to bilingual employees.
Felicia Taylor
PHR Director of Human Resources / Tricolor Auto Group
Compli has helped us with a number of unemployment claims. Through our documentation housed within Compli’s Platform, we’ve been able to show that we’ve followed a progressive disciplinary process and that, despite our outreach, employees failed to rectify their behavior.
Felicia Taylor
PHR Director of Human Resources / Tricolor Auto Group
Additionally, we have meetings every week with our managers to ensure their employees are what we call ‘100% green,’ which means their teams have a 100% compliance rate within Compli’s drill down departmental reports.
Felicia Taylor
PHR Director of Human Resources / Tricolor Auto Group
By using Compli we were able to eliminate the termination claim and avoid fines. It’s been a lifesaver.
Scott Basinger
CFO / Byers Auto Group
Using Compli we were able to find and deliver everything to the investigator immediately. Having the documents in one centralized location helped immensely. We had everything we needed in Complí – the signed forms, documentation that the employee had taken the training, eye witness accounts from other staff members – everything.
Scott Basinger
CFO / Byers Auto Group
It’s important to have one location where all of your required documentation and trainings are kept. By using Complí we were able to eliminate the termination claim and avoid fines. It’s been a lifesaver.
Scott Basinger
CFO / Byers Auto Group
For me, the most valuable piece Compli offers is the ability to track compliance and provide proof when someone’s memory fails them.
Judy Delgadillo
VP of Recruiting & Development / Shelly Automotive Group
Not only have issues dwindled to nearly zero, but also plaintiff lawyers are reluctant to take on any case once they see how much documentation we have in Compli.
Brad Preble
President / Carr Auto Group
Complí has become a key management tool for us in this very competitive environment by automating our workforce communication and simplifying our compliance processes.
Dave Blewett
President / Kendall Auto Group
The Compli team was excellent and always very responsive. When I needed assistance in uploading a new form, BOOM, it was done and pushed out to everybody.
Nichole Todisco
Chief Financial Officer / TKO Group
With Compli, you’re partnered with people I respect and trust.
Nichole Todisco
Chief Financial Officer / TKO Group
Compli allows us to maintain employee data for life.
Nichole Todisco
Chief Financial Officer / TKO Group
Compliance has never been optional, but there are a lot of companies in the past who have operated that way. In light of recent events, compliance has really stepped up in the last few years, so we really have to make sure all of our bases are covered and make sure we're always in compliance at all times.
Andy Page
Director of Operations / Road Auto Finance
The training was pretty flawless. You know, I've dealt with a lot of different third party vendors as far as software, and they're usually not very fun to deal with. Compli was very, very good. I was honestly shocked about how easy it was. I just answered a few questions, and everybody over at Compli just kind of took it from there.
Andy Page
Director of Operations / Road Auto Finance
All my employees know what the rules are and they know where the boundaries are, and they know not to step out of bounds. So my capital source feels much more comfortable knowing that my employees know where out of bounds is.
Andy Page
Director of Operations / Road Auto Finance
Compli takes care of the compliance so I can take care of selling cars.
Bently Durant
COO & General Counsel / Classic Chevrolet
Compliance before Compli was just a series of manuals that were read once, signed once, and thrown in the trash can. We had the signature pages, but no one knew a word that was in them. 
Bently Durant
COO & General Counsel / Classic Chevrolet
The thing that really brought us to Compli was it was a dealer-based system, and it knew exactly our needs.
Bently Durant
COO & General Counsel / Classic Chevrolet
I’ve never had an easier time tracking compliance than with the reports I get from Compli. I can tell exactly what departments are on track with trainings, exactly what managers are falling behind. 
Bently Durant
COO & General Counsel / Classic Chevrolet
 I think from a compliance perspective, it’s really good at just disseminating information and making sure that people pay attention to it, because no one wants to pay attention to compliance. 
Cindy Dahoff
Associate Counsel / Phil Smith Auto Group
It’s really useful because since we do have so many employees across different states at 11 different rooftops, it would be difficult to manage on a central basis if we didn’t have something like Compli.
Cindy Dahoff
Associate Counsel / Phil Smith Auto Group
Compli helps us keep up with regulation changes. I don't have to worry about when something comes up, I don't have to come up with a new video or create a test. Compli is usually way ahead of us like the I-9 that just changed, they're already updating that and make sure it's available for us.
Robin Parse, PHR, SHRM-CP
Office Manager/Human Resources / Wendle Motors
Compli makes our job so much easier, they do most of the work for us. They put together the video trainings, the tests, sample policies. It's just us rolling it out, assigning to our employees, and the system does its work. It will even automatically resend items employees must do annually to make sure that they do it. You can run reports so you know how compliant everyone is. Once they complete a task, it's filed in their history so it becomes an employee file.
Robin Parse, PHR, SHRM-CP
Office Manager/Human Resources / Wendle Motors
We don't actually allow an employee to go out on the floor to either sell cars or go back into the service department until they've completed everything assigned to them in Compli. When an employee is educated about what is and is not the right behaviors, and what our expectations are, then it makes it a lot easier for them to go out there and do their job, and do it in a way we expect them to do it.
Jeff Johnson
CFO / Mike Shaw Automotive
Compli has been very effective at allowing us at a corporate level to monitor for sure what's going on at the stores. Prior to using the software, we relied on each individual store controller to make sure everything was done right. And then we would go in on an occasional basis and look through paper files. But going electronic and using Compli allows us to monitor it on a higher level from the corporate office and allows the compliance person easier access to check on stores on a more frequent basis and make sure everything's been done correctly.
Jeff Johnson
CFO / Mike Shaw Automotive
It definitely allows compliance to go into the forefront. As everybody knows, compliance can sometimes get lost in the shuffle. Instead of trying to go run somebody down to sign a document, the automated alert from the system does it for me.
Tyler Porter
Human Resource & Legal Compliance Manager / Martin Management Group
When we have issues, like sexual harassment or other issues, we use Compli not only to ensure that we're compliant, but we also try to ensure that all our employees are aware of all instances. When they happen, we reassign the appropriate trainings to the appropriate employees. Complí also allows us to focus on an individual if needed or we can focus on multiple groups of employees as well to ensure they’re well-versed in all different aspects of requirements, notices, etc.
Tyler Porter
Human Resource & Legal Compliance Manager / Martin Management Group
It is a fantastic tool to use for supporting documentation. Because our notices, trainings, handbook, etc., are online on the Compli system, when an employee signs off, it allows us to have a date and timestamp of when it was executed. That way, if there's ever any ambiguities regarding whether or not an employee signed it, I can go right in the system, pull up that employee and show whether or not an employee has completed a document.
Tyler Porter
Human Resource & Legal Compliance Manager / Martin Management Group
Compli is very flexible, so if there is a change the system allows me pretty much to take care of any problem that might arise through ever-changing laws.
Tyler Porter
Human Resource & Legal Compliance Manager / Martin Management Group
If I see that there's an issue coming up at one of the locations, I have the ability to reach out to the appropriate personnel and solve that issue before we actually do have a problem.
Tyler Porter
Human Resource & Legal Compliance Manager / Martin Management Group
Compli is kind of a one-stop for trainings. It allows me to put my entire workforce on notice when, for example, there's a new requirement sent out by OSHA.
Tyler Porter
Human Resource & Legal Compliance Manager / Martin Management Group
The Compli system is very easy to use, so without question, it was a very smooth transition.
Tyler Porter
Human Resource & Legal Compliance Manager / Martin Management Group
Compli is a resource for me, it keeps me current. Compli is connected to the industry and to lots of legal minds to make sure that what I am imparting to my employees is consistent, real, and up-to-date. That's critical for us.
Tina Garner
HR Manager / RideNow Powersports
With Compli we can identify what is required for each one of those employees, based on where they're at. If they're in Nevada, or Texas, or Florida, the system helps us get the right information to that employee simply because of where they reside.
Tina Garner
HR Manager / RideNow Powersports
Honestly, I can't imagine not having Compli. Compli is the glue that keeps us together. They provide the consistency that we need for compliance requirements across our entire company. We're able to get everything out to our employees quickly and seamlessly through Compli.
Tina Garner
HR Manager / RideNow Powersports
If you're trying to do compliance by keeping track of emails and spreadsheets, the amount of time that is sucked up doing this repetitive type of activities prohibits your HR people from doing the things that you really want them to do. We have grown quite rapidly recently, and keeping up with that change is incredibly difficult. I can't imagine doing it without an automated product like Compli.
Patrick Sanders
Former General Counsel / Mungenast Automotive Family
We have used Compli twice very successfully in enforcement actions to demonstrate our appropriate training and policy distribution and acknowledgement, and it worked. In both cases we didn't go to court.
Patrick Sanders
Former General Counsel / Mungenast Automotive Family
I know from looking at how lawsuits develop and how lawsuits are defended and prosecuted, that if you have a good defense in terms of compliance documentation, it's a great inoculation against lawsuits. We use Compli every week. In all of our operations we looked weekly at where each of our departs are under Compli compliance. If you're doing that level, the audit trail for compliance is very easy.
Patrick Sanders
Former General Counsel / Mungenast Automotive Family
What I like about Complí is the way their system puts the policies and procedures all in one place that's easy to use for dealers. Dealers have a lot to deal with. They need to be profitable, they're selling and servicing vehicles. Having a tool like Complí is very helpful because it puts them in a position that it's one less thing to worry about.
Stephen J. Roppolo
Regional Managing Partner / Fisher Phillips
Anything that can help a dealer handle the employee processes is a big help. Complí is the kind of tool that put in the hands of an overworked dealership staff is a real help. And in fact, as an employment lawyer, when there is a claim or a lawsuit, and I become involved, knowing that I can get a complete and accurate picture of what happened with Complí is a big help to me as a litigator.
Stephen J. Roppolo
Regional Managing Partner / Fisher Phillips
Fisher Phillips has been working with Complí for a long time providing content for Complígo HR policies and procedures. A lot of our clients access those materials through Complí too. We also provide background and information on changes in the law. So, as things change, and we're seeing a lot of change these days, policies and procedures are updated very promptly in Complígo so that Compli's customers get up-to-date and usable information quickly.
Stephen J. Roppolo
Regional Managing Partner / Fisher Phillips

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