Retaliation

Members of the Stanford community are required to act with honesty and integrity and comply with applicable laws at all times when transacting University business. This guide memo clarifies that all forms of bribery and corruption are absolutely prohibited, provides guidance regarding what constitutes bribery and corruption, and requires reporting of actual or suspected incidents of bribery and corruption.

Stanford University strives to provide a place of work and study free of sexual harassment, intimidation or exploitation. Where sexual harassment has occurred, the University will act to stop the harassment, prevent its recurrence, and discipline and/or take other appropriate action against those responsible. See also: Sexual Harassment Policy Office website.

This Guide Memo outlines Stanford University's definitions and policies relating to sexual misconduct, sexual assault, stalking and relationship violence (“Prohibited Sexual Conduct”). In conjunction with this Guide Memo, Stanford has disciplinary and administrative procedures for making formal determinations of whether Prohibited Sexual Conduct has occurred, which are described in Section 8 of this Guide Memo. Prohibited Sexual Conduct is a severe form of sexual harassment; see Guide Memo 1.7.1: Sexual Harassment.

This Guide Memo outlines the formal process to resolve employee complaints at Stanford and is designed specifically for trial period, casual and temporary employees.

The Administrative Review Process is intended to supplement, not replace, routine and informal methods of responding to and resolving employee complaints. Employee complaints covered by the Administrative Review Process apply to involuntary termination actions only.

The Administrative Review Process is located in the Resolving Workplace Issues section of the Cardinal at Work website.

The policies in this Guide Memo are fundamental to Stanford University's employment policies.

This Guide memo outlines the policy to resolve employee complaints at Stanford through a formal grievance process and is designed specifically for regular employees as defined in the "Applicability" section. The Grievance Process is intended to supplement, not replace, routine and informal methods of responding to and resolving employee complaints.

The Grievance Process is located in the Resolving Workplace Issues section of the Cardinal at Work website.

Employee complaints covered by the Grievance Process include written corrective action and involuntary termination (including layoff) only. The Grievance Process does not include other employee complaints such as performance appraisals, compensation/benefits or job classifications.