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Terminating an employee for cause is a big deal. Sexual harassment is worthy of termination. Failing to take sexual harassment training is not.


Consistently failing to take training required by your employer is absolutely grounds for termination.


His suggestion wasn't about consistent failure. He said that employees should be fired if they don't take it, which is absurdly heavy handed.


Why? Your boss tells you to do something. You either do it, or she fires you. If you expect anything different, you are deluded.


Eh, my workplace isn't like that, my management is happy to entertain my pushbacks to a point. If it was like that I'd quit in a heartbeat.


Sure. But I don't think anybody is talking about immediate firings without warning here.

If your manager keeps telling you, you have to do X, for a month and you simply refuse to do it, they'd be quite right to fire you.


I didn't have any suggestions, I merely asked for the counter argument to the idea.


Since when do employees get to choose which trainings they will and will not take?

We have this training. Along with privacy training, and lots of other trainings. You take the trainings that HR lays out. If you want to play a game of pick-and-choose, then you're shown the door.




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