Sentences with phrase «against a female employee»

Last month, WestJet Airlines filed an appeal after the Supreme Court of British Columbia refused to throw out a proposed class - action lawsuit accusing the company of fostering a corporate culture that tolerates harassment against female employees.

A darker picture is presented in two lawsuits that allege Aaron has gone on profane tirades against female employees.

Ashley Madison has filed a countersuit against the female employee who sued the affairs site for $ 21m, claiming they made her create illegal fake profiles.

David was a member of the trial team that orchestrated a record - breaking $ 95 million dollar verdict against Aaron's Rents for their corporate discrimination against a female employee.

Pregnancy discrimination is any adverse action by an employer against a female employee because of her pregnancy.

The Court of Appeal held that the pay protection arrangements in these cases — which favoured male employees and on the face of it therefore, indirectly discriminated against female employees — could not be justified.

Not exact matches

Mario Batali is stepping away from his vast food empire and his co-hosting position on ABC's «The Chew» after at least three former female employees and one female chef have come forward with sexual misconduct allegations against him.

This week, The Guardian reported that a female Tesla employee had filed suit against the electric - car company for what she called «pervasive harassment.»

The lawsuits include allegations that the league ignored repeated accusations that female employees were harassed and discriminated against.

«New Yorkers deserve to have a chair of the CCRB who does not refer to police officers as pigs, female employees as pu — s, and retaliate against those who complain,» said Malik's lawyer Douglas Wigdor.

Republican Assembly candidate for the 99th District, Mark Levy, said,» I agree with Assembly candidates Jennifer Whalen (R) of AD 110 and Frank Commisso Jr. (D) of AD 109 that Sheldon Silver has failed female employees in this state by his handling of the charges against Assemblyperson Vito Lopez.

A former employee of a company co-founded by genomics pioneer J. Craig Venter has filed a lawsuit alleging gender discrimination against the firm's female employees — and alleging harassment by Venter himself.

But McBride sniffs around enough to sense that there's a coverup — one that leads directly back to his old firm, now controlled by his creepy ex-partner, Donald Cooperman (William Hurt), a recluse who watches his employees on camera and deliberately pits female attorneys against one another.

To her shock, she learnt that the person was a serial offender and no action had been taken against him despite his misbehaviour with two other female employees.

During the trial considerable evidence was admitted that brought into question the validity of the female employees allegations against Elgert, including the testimony of two employees who had heard the female employee comment, prior to making the sexual harassment allegations, that she would «get even» with Elgert after he had transferred her to a department away from her boyfriend.

The allegations against Neil include «repeated unwelcome solicitations for sex,» constant sexually derogatory remarks, invasive peeks down the women's blouses, and verbal implications that the plaintiffs and other female employees could receive days off only if they agreed to have sex with him.

Several female employees of Wal - Mart brought a putative class action against their employer, alleging that they were the victims of sex discrimination and seeking back - pay.

This comment identifies the ways in which female lawyers continue to face discrimination even after they make partner and highlights a serious gap in current antidiscrimination law that perpetuates discrimination against female partners: Courts have interpreted Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to protect employees but not partners.

In the case of Capita Customer Management Limited v Ali the Employment Appeal Tribunal («EAT») reversed the decision of the Employment Tribunal («ET») and ruled that an employer did not directly discriminate against men on grounds of sex by refusing a new father enhanced pay whilst on shared parental leave whilst female employees received enhanced maternity pay for the first 14 weeks of maternity leave.

The Supreme Court of Canada has previously said, in the context of the BC Human Rights code, that compliance with religous tenets of a faith based school is a bona fide requirement of employment for a religious school (see Caldwell et al. v. Stuart et al., [1984] 2 SCR 603 — recently cited by the BC Court of Appeal in Vancouver Rape Relief Society v. Nixon for the basis that the Vancouver Rape Relief Center could discriminate against a non-genetic female) which held that a Catholic school could dismiss an employee who had married outside of the tenets of the Catholic faith (i.e., she had married a divorced non-catholic in a civil ceremony).