Workplace Compliance
Workplace Rights and Responsibilities
Understand employee and employer obligations and raise workplace concerns through appropriate channels.
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This course focuses on core workplace rights and responsibilities. Participants learn to recognize employee and employer obligations and raise concerns appropriately, using a workplace rights decision guide to organize their next steps.
What you'll learn
- Explore the importance of workplace rights in ensuring fair treatment, safety, and equality
- Identify fundamental workplace rights and how they vary across jurisdictions and industries
- Develop awareness of ethical considerations in the workplace, such as integrity, respect, and fairness
- Use course methods to recognize employee and employer obligations and raise concerns appropriately in a workplace scenario.
- Develop a workplace rights decision guide aligned to a relevant work need.
What you'll be able to do
- Identify a workplace need connected to core workplace rights and responsibilities.
- Select an appropriate way to recognize employee and employer obligations and raise concerns appropriately.
- Explain the reasoning behind that choice and identify its limitations.
- Produce a workplace rights decision guide that addresses a relevant work need.
- Set review points for a workplace rights decision guide and identify one adjustment.
Federal employees and supervisors share responsibility for a fair, lawful, and respectful workplace. This course helps participants understand core workplace rights and obligations and know how to raise concerns through appropriate channels. It supports OPM's emphasis on the rule of law.
What you'll learn
- Explain the importance of workplace rights in ensuring fair treatment.
- Identify core rights and responsibilities of federal employees and supervisors.
- Recognize workplace practices that are unfair or inconsistent with agency policy.
- Identify appropriate channels for raising workplace concerns, including whistleblower protections.
- Apply ethical considerations to workplace decisions.
What you'll be able to do
- Understand their rights and responsibilities in the workplace.
- Recognize practices that may violate employee rights or agency policy.
- Raise concerns through the right channels.
- Support a fair and respectful work environment.
- Respond appropriately when concerns are raised.