Sex Discrimination: Agencies' Handling of Sexual Harassment and Related
Complaints (Testimony, 03/08/94, GAO/T-OSI-94-22).

Employees at the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) are reluctant to
use the agency's complaint process to deal with sexual harassment
because they fear reprisal from managers and because they believe that
investigators lack objectivity, sensitivity, and confidence. GAO found
that Office of Professional Responsibility investigators sometimes did
not obtain all corroborating evidence when looking into complaints and
that differences in the rights and remedies afforded by equal employment
opportunity and Office of Professional Responsibility investigations
were not communicated to the employees. Finally, although training on
the agency's sexual-harassment-complaints process was made available to
all employees, many persons said that they had received no specialized
training. GAO believes that DEA will continue to have problems with
sexual harassment unless it changes the way in which it handles sexual
harassment allegations.

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 REPORTNUM:  T-OSI-94-22
     TITLE:  Sex Discrimination: Agencies' Handling of Sexual Harassment 
             and Related Complaints
      DATE:  03/08/94
   SUBJECT:  Sex discrimination
             Sexual harassment
             Law enforcement agencies
             Investigations into federal agencies
             Fair employment programs
             Civil rights law enforcement
             Investigations by federal agencies
             Federal employees
             Administrative remedies
             Employment discrimination

             
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