THE COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS
EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT
STATE HOUSE, BOSTON 02133

By His Excellency

MICHAEL S. DUKAKIS
GOVERNOR

EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 240

SEXUAL HARASSMENT

(Revising and Amending E.O. #200)

    WHEREAS, Amendment Article 106 of the Constitution of
the Commonwealth requires that equality under the law shall not
be denied or abridged because of sex; and

    WHEREAS, Section four of Chapter one hundren and fifty-
one B of the General Laws prohibits discrimination in the con-
ditions of employment on the basis of sex; and

    WHEREAS, sexual harassment undermines the integrity of
the workplace and the personal dignity of the individual; and

    WHEREAS, sexual harassment may involve a person of
either sex against a person of the same or opposite sex; and

    WHEREAS, it is the policy of the Commonwealth to prevent
and eliminate sexual harassment in state employment, to ensure
that state employees are permitted to work in an atmosphere
free from sexual harassment;

    NOW, THEREFORE, I, Michael S. Dukakis, Governor of the
Commonwealth of Massachusetts, by virtue of the authority
vested in me as Supreme Executive Magistrate, do hereby order
as follows:

    The Executive Office of Administration and Finance shall
establish a policy to facilitate the elimination of sexual
harassment from public employment in the Commonwealth.  Said
policy shall direct all state agencies under all Executive
Offices, the Board of Regents of Higher Education and the Board
of Education to promulgate and implement rules for the
adjudication of complaints of sexual harassment received from
their employees.  The Executive Office of Administration and
Finance shall also promulgate a model set of said rules, which
all agencies subject to this Executive Order shall either
adopt, or if an agency deems it necessary an agency shall
promulgate within one hundred and eighty days of this Executive
Order, its own rules, which shall be consistent with the policy
established by the Executive Office of Administration and
Finance.  Said policy established by the Executive Office of
Administration and Finance and the rules adopted by the agency
shall be posted by every state agency, appointing authority,
board, commission, or office subject to this order.  This order
shall take effect immediately.

Given at the Executive Chamber in
Boston this 4th day of June in
the year of our Lord one thousand
nine hundred and eighty-four, and
of the Independence of the United
States of America two hundred and
nine.

MICHAEL S. DUKAKIS
GOVERNOR
Commonwealth of Massachusetts

MICHAEL JOSEPH CONNOLLY
SECRETARY OF THE COMMONWEALTH

GOD SAVE THE COMMONWEALTH OFMASSACHUSETTS