Sentences with phrase «assembly alleged sexual harassment»

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Carlson is not alone: Susan Fowler, the former Uber engineer who came out publicly against her employer alleging sexual harassment, is also working with members of the California State Assembly to pass legislation to eliminate forced arbitration, which prevented Fowler from coming forward about sexual harassment at Uber until after she quit.

Now that the incredibly creepy sexual harassment allegations against New York State Assemblyman Vito Lopez have been made public, Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver can't exactly sit by and do nothing — even if that's what he reportedly did while the alleged abuse was going on.

But now another kind of «wooing» — the alleged sexual harassment of two female employees of the State Assembly — has led to the downfall of Lopez.

State GOP Chair Ed Cox has thoroughly condemned the Democratic Assembly Speaker for authorizing a secret pay out to alleged sexual harassment victims.

New York's GOP Chair Ed Cox says it's the Assembly Democrats who are engaging in a «war on women», after Brooklyn Assemblyman Vito Lopez was censured for sexual harassment, and it was revealed that the Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver had authorized a previous secret settlement against two other alleged Lopez victims.

The payment came to light after Silver had disclosed that Lopez had been censured by the Assembly Ethics Committee for two more instances of alleged sexual harassment.

The second set of proceedings in less than a week come after Governor Andrew Cuomo, among others, called on the ethics panel to investigate a sexual harassment scandal that centered on Assemblyman Vito Lopez, who was censured by an assembly committee over alleged sexual harassment charges.