The Agriculture Department’s Food Safety and Inspection Service has carried out its parent Agriculture Department’s anti-harassment policies, according to an inspector general review that—in a rarity for IG reports—had no recommendations to make.
The audit was examining compliance by the FSIS with a 2018 department-wide policy that defines what constitutes sexual harassment, requires employees to report all such incidents, and requires management to document them and take action including starting an investigation within 10 days, ensuring that any harassment that is verified does not continue, and possible disciplinary actions and referral to law enforcement.
The IG concluded that each of the four main FSIS components had put such policies in place, and in a sample of eight such complaints filed over 2019-2021 found that they “were appropriately responded to and processed in compliance with departmental and agency policies.”
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