A workplace harassment complaint at the Colorado Capitol prompted a committee set up four years ago by the state legislature in response to a sexual harassment scandal to meet for the first time Thursday. The Colorado House Workplace Harassment Committee offered no hints as to the nature of the complaint — made against either a state representative or a partisan staffer in the House. The General Assembly formed separate House and Senate workplace harassment committees in 2019, a year after a series of sexual harassment complaints against then-Rep. Steve Lebsock exposed gaps in the legislature’s policies. The role of the committees is to work with the Office of Legislative Workplace Relations to determine whether a complaint falls within the scope of the legislature’s workplace harassment policy. After receiving a brief overview of its duties from Ben FitzSimons, who leads the Office of Legislative Workplace Relations, the House Workplace Harassment Committee on Thursday went into secret executive session for nearly an hour.

Source: Daily Sun May 31, 2023 12:58 UTC