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ROH §1-18.4

Employers must have a sexual harassment policy

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Employers covered by this law must have and enforce a written policy against sexual harassment. The policy must protect employees, job applicants, and people doing business with the employer, and must include rules about reporting, investigating, and disciplining. It must stay in effect for the whole time the employer has a city contract.

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The ordinance, as written (Honolulu County) — Sexual harassment policy required of employer

A copy, taken August 22, 2026. The version published by Honolulu is the one that governs, and it may have changed since. Check it before relying on anything here.

(a) Each employer to which this article applies shall have and enforce a policy prohibiting sexual harassment that sets forth the same or greater protections than those contained in Article 17 that are correspondingly applicable to the employer’s business and including the following: (1) Prohibitions against an officer’s or employee’s sexual harassment of the following: (A) Another officer or employee of the employer; (B) An individual under consideration for employment with the employer; or (C) An individual doing business with the employer; (2) A provision prohibiting a management or supervisory officer or employee from knowingly permitting a subordinate officer or employee to engage in the sexual harassment prohibited under subdivision (1); (3) A prohibition against retaliation towards an officer, employee, or individual who has complained of sexual harassment, conducted an investigation of a complaint, or acted as a witness during an investigation of a complaint; (4) A prohibition against a malicious false complaint of sexual harassment by an officer, employee, or individual; (5) Provisions allowing an officer, employee, or individual to make a sexual harassment complaint to an appropriate management, supervisory, or personnel officer or employee; (6) Procedures for investigating a sexual harassment complaint in an unbiased, fair, and discreet manner with appropriate safeguards to maintain confidentiality and protection from embarrassment; (7) A provision requiring the use of the “reasonable person of the same gender standard,” as described under § 1-17.6 , to determine if sexual harassment has occurred; (8) Disciplinary actions that may be imposed on an officer or employee who committed a prohibited act; and (9) For an employer with at least five employees, a provision requiring the annual viewing of a video on the sexual harassment policy by each management or supervisory officer or employee. (b) The policy required under this section shall be in effect for at least the duration of the employer’s contract with the city. (c) The department of budget and fiscal services shall prepare a standard form of the policy required under this section. The standard form shall set forth a policy containing minimum requirements which conform to this section.
Read the official text at honolulu.gov ↗as published Jan 1, 2026our copy taken Aug 22, 2026

Published by the City and County of Honolulu through American Legal Publishing.

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