Sentences with phrase «culture of harassment»

That has allowed a culture of harassment and abuse to arise on its platform.

Uber has been under a cloud lately as a result of an internal investigation into a culture of harassment and sexism, as well as a major lawsuit filed by a subsidiary of Google alleging the theft of the search giant's automated vehicle technology.

Recent high - profile sexual harassment cases demonstrate the devastating impact on individual employees, as well as the fallout to an organization when a culture of harassment is permitted to exist.

Together we can end the culture of harassment, abuse and impunity».

Let's use these voices to end this culture of harassment, rape, and secrecy now.

Clearly, the stakes are high when it comes to any allegations of misconduct — a cover - up and reports of a widespread culture of harassment have been shown to seriously damage businesses.

It's been under a cloud since February, when former Uber engineer Susan Fowler published allegations about the company's culture of harassment on her blog.

Not exact matches

Uber, of course, has promised to clean up its corporate culture after a spate of bad publicity about sexual harassment and a damning video of CEO Travis Kalanick cursing out a driver.

High - profile discrimination and harassment cases like those of Ellen Pao, a former junior partner with Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, and Whitney Wolfe, a co-founder of Tinder, have made headlines but little change in the culture.

A covert questionnaire by and for female employees at Nike that hinted at a culture of sexual harassment and gender discrimination has already led to the departure of at least six top male executives.

Until conscious leaders operating on the values of integrity, fairness, and impartiality crush the toxic power values of misogynistic work cultures and male white privilege, we'll continue to witness more sexual harassment allegations and the widening of the gender pay gap.

But the lawsuit «utterly failed» to reform the culture inside the company, Lockette alleges, where a «campaign of harassment» against minorities persisted, Bloomberg reports.

The decision was apparently spurred by a campaign arguing that the magazine exposes people to a» #MeToo culture» that encourages the sexual harassment of women.

Former Uber engineer Susan Fowler opened up earlier this year in a blog post about the toxic culture of workplace harassment at the company, alleging that she was sexually harassed by a male manager at Uber whose actions were knowingly brought to the attention of HR.

Excessive drinking and other Mad Men - like behavior have become part of the culture of getting an MBA degree at schools like Harvard and Wharton, including, in some cases, sexual harassment.

And not all forms of harassment or exclusion are necessarily immediately noticed as such, especially in a bro culture.

The resulting «bro culture» tends to prioritize young men over all other employees, creating an environment that's ripe for toxic behaviors like excessive partying and systemic harassment of colleagues.

He was unable to grow up from Uber's «Bro Culture,» as he permitted sexual harassment to rage out of control.

If you're hiring people to fit into what's actually an unscrupulous, harassment - ridden «bro culture,» odds are you'll be alienating many prospective employees who don't fit into the demographic boxes of young, white, and male — or those who simply prefer to work in a more professional environment.

The HR experts agreed that such a crisis is indicative of a toxic, secretive company culture, in which harassment and other bad behavior can flourish.

It's also trying to shift its internal culture after former employee Susan Fowler went public with allegations of sexual harassment and discrimination.

Toxic cultures of rampant harassment and exclusion result when boards are so focused on profit that they don't care how the money is made.

The proposed class - action suit alleges a racist culture at Tesla, unsafe factory conditions, and failure on the part of the company, including CEO Elon Musk personally, to prevent or investigate race - based harassment and discrimination there.

The blanket use of confidentiality or non-disclosure agreements (NDAs) in contracts addressing sexual harassment claims has created a culture of secrecy, permitting perpetrators to muzzle their victims and to continue engaging in misconduct.

After former employee Susan Fowler revealed the workplace sexism she allegedly experienced at Uber, more negative stories of the company's workplace culture have surfaced, including homophobic slurs and instances of sexual harassment.

The union took aim at «a hyper - masculine industrial camp culture, which can result in increased risk of sexual harassment, assault, increased levels of violence against women in sex work and hitchhiking and increased levels of child care and gender inequity.»

A female engineer had posted a long public account of rampant sexual harassment and the company's «bro culture,» to which Uber's HR department had turned a blind eye.

Most notably, a blog post published by former site reliability engineer Susan Fowler in February describing a workplace culture that enabled rampant sexual harassment resulted in an internal investigation and the firing of more than 20 people.

Whether that was an attempt to make her soften or retract her story, or just a supreme example of thoughtlessness, the survey turned out to be an effective way to get a company with an entrenched «bro» culture to begin taking sexual harassment and gender discrimination more seriously.

And Uber CEO Travis Kalanick apologized and then resigned last month after his management team was accused of fostering a boy's club culture and turning a blind eye to sexual harassment.

Yet persistent and credible reporting on human rights violations continue, particularly in the areas of repression of political dissent, harassment of lawyers and human rights advocates, and suppression of religion and ethnic minority cultures.

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.

As mentioned, a recent legal probe exposed a work culture that is filled with problems such as sexual harassment and discrimination that resulted in the firing of 20 employees.

The lawsuit comes just days after Uber unveiled the results of an investigation into its company culture and management, which was prompted by a female engineer's account of sexism and sexual harassment she experienced while at the company.

Uber hired Albarran's law firm to conduct an investigation into its culture in the aftermath of former engineer Susan Fowler's essay on her experience with sexism and sexual harassment at the company.

OTTAWA (CP)-- Arts and culture organizations will now be required to commit in writing to providing a workplace free of harassment and sexual misconduct in order to receive federal funding, Heritage Minister Melanie Joly declared Wednesday.

As waves of sexual - harassment allegations crash against the shores of work culture, now is a good time to support women — even robots with female personas like Alexa.

First, it assumes sexual assault, harassment, and abuse are recent phenomena, products of egalitarian views on gender that grant women equality in the home, church, and culture.

Speaker Silver's hush money payments helped this culture to survive to today, and he helped Vito Lopez to persist in his harassment of woman staffers in the Assembly with buying off victims.!

Erica Vladimer, the former state Senate staffer who accused IDC Leader Jeffrey Klein of forcibly kissing her, said Albany's «insidious» culture of sexual harassment kept her from reporting the incident.

Jeremy Corbyn has committed his party to tackle the «warped and degrading» culture of sexual harassment across workplaces.

Perhaps most importantly, the next attorney general should commit to taking on the culture of sexual harassment that pervades state government.

Or the sexual harassment of staff and interns that is part and parcel of Albany culture that also pops up like that troubling rodent in Caddyshack.

The victim collected $ 500,000 after settling a lawsuit that claimed Silver mishandled an earlier complaint about Boxley, and tolerated a culture of sex harassment.

The State will pay 580G to Ms. Burhans and Ms. Rivera with taxpayer money — so let me weigh in — they deserve every penny of «our» money and we should be outraged that it came to that and Silver should go straight to hell for condoning a culture of sexual harassment for so long in Albany, NY.

A culture of secrecy has long shielded state lawmakers accused of sexual harassment in New York.

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.

Ms. Nolan is the only woman in the race and could cull together a bloc of female legislators hungry to change the culture of sexual harassment that has plagued Albany.

Mayor Bill de Blasio was criticized this week when he suggested the number of sexual - harassment claims at the DOE had been inflated by the agency's «hyper - complaint» culture.

Twenty - five city schools are being honored — eight for the second time — for their work creating programs that teach the importance of respecting others, celebrating diversity and creating a school culture that is free from bullying and harassment.