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DeMaio, a former member of the San Diego City Council, failed to win the support of the LGBT community and has been troubled by claims of sexual harassment from two former campaign aides.

The company has been saddled with claims of sexual harassment from former employees, and its CEO has suffered a meltdown during a heated exchange with an Uber driver.

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The company is removing language found in some of its employees» contracts that barred them from filing suit over workplace sexual harassment claims.

Controversy accompanied his exit from Square, with a threat of a lawsuit over sexual harassment claims by a male employee who allegedly obtained a job at the company after beginning a relationship with Rabois.

July: Dave McClure, the founder of startup incubator 500 Startups, resigned from his position as general partner following an investigation into claims of sexual harassment.

One of Uber's top executives, Amit Singhal, resigned on Monday for not disclosing previous sexual harassment claims from his prior job at Google.

Charney was never charged or convicted for the sexual harassment claims brought against him, which included allegations from American Apparel board members that he kept kept graphic photographs of him having sex with staff members on company computers.

The Times seemed the right place for such a gathering: The Newspaper of Record was soon to be awarded three Pulitzer Prizes on April 16, one for public service that it shared with The New Yorker for documenting stories of sexual harassment from multiple women who claimed they were abused by disgraced movie mogul Harvey Weinstein.

Additionally, nearly 37 percent of all sexual harassment claims filed with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) arise from the restaurant industry.

Yes Mayer is claiming to be the champion of sexual harassment issues, yet she's taking money from Jeff Klein who's accused of sexually harassing one of his staffers?

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D.) plans to keep more than half of the campaign donations he received from Democratic donor and Hollywood film mogul Harvey Weinstein after it was revealed last week that he had settled sexual harassment claims with at least eight different women.

Democratic Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney of New York, who engaged in a major funding limitation debate during the fiscal 2017 appropriations season when he proposed an amendment to bar discrimination against certain federal contractors, said he hadn't thought of using a funding limitation to bar payouts for claims stemming from sexual harassment by members of Congress.

Lawmakers are facing mounting pressure to end Capitol Hill's culture of secrecy over sexual harassment as they return from a holiday break, with members of both parties calling for Congress to overhaul its handling of misconduct claims and to unmask lawmakers who have paid settlements using taxpayer money.

Thursday's unanimous vote the Erie County Legislature follows claims - and a notice of intention to file legal action - by a county employee who accuses Erie County of not doing enough to protect workers from sexual harassment.

This legislation would: create a uniform policy for all branches of state and local government and establish a dedicated unit to receive and investigate sexual harassment claims, ensure individual liability to promote greater accountability, prohibit confidentiality agreements unless the victim requests that his or her identity be kept private, and put in place necessary safeguards to allow government to recoup monies to rightly protect hardworking taxpayers from being on the hook for individual acts of sexual harassment.

She claims the warrant is part of a conspiracy to silence her from speaking out about the Harvey Weinstein sexual harassment scandal.

An MP suspended from the Labour Party over sexual harassment claims has questioned the «integrity of the process».

Wojtaszek added that Maziarz recommended Aronow and that he received several consulting contracts over the years because of the quality of his work and the view that no admission of guilt ever stemmed from the sexual harassment claim.

But since the summer, when a raft of sexual harassment claims from former staffers surfaced, Lopez relinquished both leadership positions and earned the unfortunate moniker «Vito Gropez.»

These includes a proposal for legislation preventing the use of public money in settling sexual harassment claims, removal of forced arbitration provisions from employee contracts and a requirement that companies doing business with the state disclose the number of sexual harassment adjudications and nondisclosure agreements they've carried out.

The Congresswoman's announcement came after she admitted to mishandling a claim of sexual harassment, abuse and assault from one of her staff.

Currently, employers who settle sexual harassment claims generally include an NDA in the settlement, prohibiting the accused from disclosing the terms of the agreement.

The petition was formed after the actor's controversial remarks about sexual harassment, and after reports surfaced that claimed the actor used his influence to stop a 2004 New York Times story that exposed Harvey Weinstein's history of sexual misconduct, which came to light last October in pieces from the New York Times and the New Yorker.

The allegations against Stallone come after disgraced producer Harvey Weinstein was accused by a number of women of sexual harassment cases spanning a 30 - year period, and actor Kevin Spacey has faced claims of sexual misconduct from several males, including Richard Dreyfuss» son Harry and «Star Trek: Discovery's Anthony Rapp.

The allegations follow on from a renewed conversation around harassment and power in the art world, sparked by the resignation of Artforum's longtime co-publisher Knight Landesman after claims of sexual misconduct this October — the celebrated conductor James Levine was suspended by the Met Opera after abuse allegations just this weekend.

As employees spend more time at the office, the number of inter-office romances has increased and so too, has the need of employers to protect themselves against any liability for sexual harassment claims that often result from a love affair gone wrong, reports Newsweek.

More to the point, it's hard to claim that the CBC has a compelling interest in removing Mr Ghomeshi from his post for the purposes of protecting his fellow employees — he's not accused of assaulting his co-workers (there is an allegation of sexual harassment, although it's not clear what role that played in the CBC's decision — the CBC referred to «recent» information, the allegation of harassment appears to be older — and in any event doesn't appear to rise to the level of a criminal act).

For companies that need assistance addressing the myriad issues arising from claims of sexual harassment in the workplace, Morgan Lewis offers a leading multidisciplinary team uniquely suited to address these complex challenges.

A bipartisan group of senators and representatives introduced late last year legislation called «Ending Forced Arbitration of Sexual Harassment Act,» which would prohibit courts from enforcing any portion of an employment contract that requires employees to submit sexual harassment claims to arbitrSexual Harassment Act,» which would prohibit courts from enforcing any portion of an employment contract that requires employees to submit sexual harassment claims to arHarassment Act,» which would prohibit courts from enforcing any portion of an employment contract that requires employees to submit sexual harassment claims to arbitrsexual harassment claims to arharassment claims to arbitration.

They worked on 183 matters covering a range of legal areas from land claims to housing and services; traditional leadership disputes to sexual harassment and unfair dismissal claims; delictual disputes; amicus curiae representations; refugee matters and corporate work for SMMEs and not - for - profit organizations.

She claimed damages against both her employer and her supervisor, Mr. Morris, for damages arising from her wrongful dismissal, a series of sexual assaults, and sexual and racial harassment.

This means that workers with current chronic stress claims, such as Margery Wardle who suffered mental stress injury from years of sexual harassment on the job, are still ineligible for compensation under legislative provisions that the Workplace Safety and Insurance Appeals Tribunal has on three occasions declared unconstitutional.

This will give you coverage against claims of sexual harassment, discrimination or wrongful termination from any of your taxi drivers.