As of late, there has been a lot of news
about female employees at startups.
A boss makes suggestive statements
about his female employee.
Applying case law: In the matter of Romano v. 1577118 Ontario Inc., the Tribunal found that a single incident where a male employer had inquired
about a female employee's preferred sex position was sufficient to establish sexual harassment.
Not exact matches
I wrote recently
about why Hydro One was wrong to fire an
employee over the crudely sexist way he and his friends treated a
female journalist at a soccer game.
Asadullah Sherazee, the general manager of OFC's Coca - Cola Bottling Co. (COKE) of Saudi Arabia, recalls that when Olayan approached him
about hiring
female employees — «Coke says the workforce should be 40 % women.
Genuine delight and surprise
about what Saudi
female employees could do was a reaction I encountered more than once at OFC.
The company's chief financial officer offered to pay a bonus to
female employees for losing weight and talked aloud
about women's breasts, according to the report.
Apple and Facebook offer to cover the cost for freezing the eggs of
female employees, the goal being to allow those
employees to focus on their careers without worrying
about declining fertility.
Having been the 20th
employee of Google and its first
female engineer, Mayer could have assumed a leading role at just
about any internet company.
On «The View,» Notaro was also asked if one of the main storylines on «One Mississippi's» second season, which involves a male executive masturbating in front of his
female employee, was
about C.K.
He assumes these (male) managers make decisions behind closed doors so that the
female employee «won't make as much of a fuss
about it.»
A
female Uber
employee who was with the group expressed her discomfort with the situation, and later complained to the company's human resources chief
about the outing, according to the report.
Speaking at the Fortune Global Forum earlier this week, Salesforce (CRM) CEO Marc Benioff revealed that he spent
about $ 3 million this year to bring the salaries of
female employees up to the level of their male counterparts.
Employees (
about 70 % of whom are
female) often ask her for advice.
Coles said that you want to have men involved in initiatives to recruit women and foster leadership among
female colleagues in the same way you want white
employees involved in initiatives
about racial diversity.
In front of
employees, the board member Arianna Huffington talked
about how having one
female director typically leads to more
female directors.
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about smart money [11:40] The future of traditional retail [12:20] The subscription model [12:40] Catering to the time - starved customer [12:55] Bringing services into the home [13:10] Leaving Gilt to lead Glamsquad [16:10] Glamsquad started as an app [17:10] Vetting
employees [18:10] Building trust with customers [19:00] Taking massive action — now [20:20] Launching the first sale on Gilt — without a return policy [21:30] Fitz [22:00] The average person wears only 20 % of their wardrobe [23:00] Taking the time to understand your customer [23:20] Challenges as a woman in business [24:40] Advice to a
female entrepreneur that's just getting started [25:25] The importance of networking [25:50] Knowing the milestones to hit along the way
The New York Times reported «charges of mismanagement and verbal abuse of subordinates» and that all four of his fellow commissioners, two from each party, complained
about Jaczko to the White House and told a congressional committee that (the Times reported) he «unprofessionally berated the agency's professional staff and reduced
female employees to tears with his comments.»
A benefits program of this caliber is seen as quite a rarity in the restaurant industry, drawing in loyal
female employees who see the important benefit of an organization that cares
about their health and well - being.
Unfortunately as for Sandberg wanting to discuss family plans with
female employees, in a lot of Europe (including Switzerland, if I remember correctly) it's pretty much common practice to ask women
about their martial and family plans in job interviews.
Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg told the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland that we need a «much more open dialogue
about gender» in the workplace, including «discussing with
female employees whether they plan to have children.»
A top official at the state Division of Criminal Justice Services who was found to have threatened
female employees with physical violence and engaged in years of sexual harassment, racism and ageism was not disciplined by the agency, which instead punished two women who provided testimony
about the case to the state IG's office.
The Erie County Industrial Development Agency has approved a mandate requiring any company that receives tax breaks or incentives must pay
female employees equal rates as their male counterparts, if both are doing the same job or holding the same position.While the 15 ECIDA directors who were at the meeting support the pay equity policy, questions were raised
about how it may be enforced.
Maybe it's the
female instinct to nurture that leads women - led brands to care more
about their
employees.
Kent was sentenced to 33 months in federal prison for lying to a judicial panel
about his repeated sexual molestation of two former
female court
employees.
Michael Fox at Jottings by an Employer's Lawyer posts
about a recent 9th Circuit en banc decision affirming that a
female employee's termination for refusal to wear makeup was not discriminatory.
Mike Fox writes
about a classic question faced by the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in a case brought by two
female employees of a New Mexico Boys» School:
The company also took the position that Alan Gordon continued to employ a
female employee even though she had been charged with fraud and that he misled Altus
about the fraud charges.
While, it is true, Nelson may not have been fired, strictly speaking, because she is a woman (after all, a
female superior could also fire a male
employee for the same reason under the state's laws), Nelson was nonetheless fired because of, inter alia, certain steretypes associated with attractive women in the workplace, or a socialized (and apparently accepted) ethic that women are to be blamed for attracting male attention (rather than, say, chastizing the male boss for making comments to Nelson
about his bulging pants).
The OHRC also expressed concern
about the increased potential for sexual violence and harassment by stating that sexualized dress codes can make a
female employee more vulnerable to unwanted sexual attention in the course of employment.
While many tech companies struggle to answer uncomfortable questions
about the gender makeup of their
employees, Custom Legal Marketing boasts a 60 percent
female workforce.
The allegations were believed to have pushed president Jeff Jones to quit after joining just six months prior; a week after his departure, a complaint from a
female employee about being taken along by Kalanick and other senior executives to an escort - karaoke bar in South Korea, and feeling uncomfortable with their inappropriate behavior, back in 2014.
Among other things, it claimed that Magic Leap
employees made comments
about women being bad with computers, dismissed
female team members» input, and created a «macho bullying» culture at the office.
From Melinda Gates throwing her weight behind improving gender equality in computer science, to a viral blog post
about the treatment of
female employees at a well - known Silicon Valley giant, the recent news is indicative of the wider situation: For women in the industry, it is one step forward, one step back.
«A reputation for not caring
about gender diversity and equality will obviously make it harder — if not impossible — to attract talented
female employees.
The human resource department of the company where I am presently working received a complaint from a
female employee about a fellow male employer sexually harassing her.