Form an employee/management task force to evaluate how human rights conflicts and issues are handled. Ask them to conduct an annual review of your equal opportunity policies.
Make sure all your employees understand what Idaho laws are in place to protect them from malicious harassment and extremist behavior.
Encourage employees to participate in human rights initiatives. Support employee efforts to organize human rights groups. Offer brown bag lunch forums on conflict resolution.
Develop a Harassment Free Workplace Policy that states all employees are entitled to work in a harassment-free environment. Make it a key component of your employee operations manual.
Reflect all of your employees' ethnic backgrounds in company publicity and marketing materials.
Use your company employee newsletter to share articles and other information about human rights and peaceful conflict resolution issues. Consider a monthly column within your company newsletter for people to share advice and information or to arrange community activities. Articles from human rights publications are sources of information.
Sponsor one of the public awareness events planned for the "Communities That Work" campaign or for Martin Luther King, Jr./Idaho Human Rights Day. Contact the mayor's office for information on these activities and events. Consider financial support for community agencies working with and for human rights.
