The City Council’s Workforce Development Committee unanimously endorsed the proposal from Mayor Lori Lightfoot, sending it to the full City Council for consideration on April 27.
The proposal expands the definition of sexual harassment to include sexual misconduct in an attempt to resolve any “ambiguity” about the city’s law, said Rey Phillips Santos, an attorney with the city’s Law Department.
The measure would also require Chicago employers to add two hours of training for supervisors and managers on how to prevent and address sexual harassment every year, while adding an additional hour of training for all employees on how to intervene if they witness sexual harassment. Employees are already required by state law to spend an hour learning how to prevent sexual harassment.
The deadline for an employee to file a sexual harassment complaint would be extended to 365 days from 300 days under the proposal, and employees could request that city officials wait 30 days to contact their employer to allow them to request a new work schedule or location. Five sexual harassment complaints were filed with city officials in 2021, an increase from 2020, said JoAnn Newsome, the deputy commissioner of the Chicago Commission on Human Relations.
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