Sentences with phrase «founded by harassment»

Hootsworth, founded by harassment legal expert Janine Yancey, is launching today to provide a resource and tool for employees and employers to address...

Hootsworth, founded by harassment legal expert Janine Yancey, is launching in beta today to provide a resource and tool for employees and employers to address harassment and other workplace issues.

Hootsworth, founded by harassment legal expert Janine Yancey, is launching in beta today to provide a resource and tool for employees and employers to addres

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In his report, the IG found that complaints about sexual harassment, in many cases perpetrated by high - ranking officials, have increased over the last five years, have been consistently mishandled across the country, and require «high level action.»

The company's new - found religion on harassment may have also been sparked by the fact that at least two of the companies that were rumored to be considering an acquisition of Twitter last fall — Salesforce and Disney — reportedly shelved the idea in part because of the environment of abuse that exists on the platform.

«During my nearly 20 year tenure with the Mavericks, I am not aware of any sexual harassment complaints about me or any findings by the organization that I engaged in inappropriate conduct.

Lawyers for the former bishop said it was accepted Canon Pemberton felt «humiliated» by the decisions, but the tribunal was right to find there was no «homophobic harassment».

This is why I found a recent essay by Tim Challies about the real fears women runners face because of the all - too - common stories of harassment to be so important.

James Levine, whose 46 - year career at the Metropolitan Opera established him as a towering figure in classical music, was fired by the company on after an investigation found evidence of sexual abuse and harassment.

The news came just hours after former U.S. Attorney Mary Jo White released the findings of her independent investigation into alleged sexual harassment at the college by Prof. Florian Jaeger.

Last summer, returning from an event in London (my work means that I can not always travel at those times of day when all good girls are meant to do so), I found myself on the receiving end of harassment and abuse by a group of «lads».

Members of Congress found personally liable for harassment or discrimination will be responsible for paying the cost of a settlement and it must be approved by the Senate or House Ethics Committee.

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.

Turned off by this insiderism (and, as it turned out later, full - on corruption and sexual harassment), and encouraged by reform champion Congresswoman Nydia Velazquez, they founded NKD specifically to fight for an inclusive local party that represented Brooklyn.

LEVINE»S CURTAIN CALL — Associated Press: «James Levine, whose 46 - year career at the Metropolitan Opera established him as a towering figure in classical music, was fired by the company on Monday after an investigation found evidence of sexual abuse and harassment.

The Ethics Committee findings issued Wednesday unfolded in parallel with a political campaign that was defined by questions of workplace harassment by McLaughlin.

In August, the Assembly stripped Lopez of his chairmanship of the Committee on Housing and barred him from employing young people after harassment allegations by two female employees of the state Assembly were found to be «credible.»

«I applaud the work of both the bi-partisan Assembly Ethics Committee and Speaker Silver for the swift and judicious action in removing Assemblyman Vito Lopez from the Chairmanship of the Assembly Housing Committee and in taking other punitive steps as a result of the findings that Assemblyman Lopez was guilty of multiple acts of sexual harassment and abuse,» Nadler said in a statement provided by his office.

Outgoing Republican Assemblyman Steve McLaughlin was disciplined for sexual harassment on Wednesday, after an investigation by the chamber's ethics committee found he had asked a female staff member for naked pictures — a claim he vehemently denied.

An investigation by the Tenant Harassment Prevention Task Force allegedly found that the two men shut off heat to rent regulated apartments even as outside temperatures dropped below freezing, illegally destroyed interior walls and common areas, and exposed tenants to 88 times the legal amount of lead dust.

It found eruptions of anti-Semitism around certain news events, including an October 2017 report by the New York Times on sexual harassment and assault allegations against movie producer Harvey Weinstein, who is Jewish.

Among other questions to be answered by a counsel, Lorigo is seeking to find out whether the county was negligent in hiring Dirschberger and whether the county was aware of any sexual assault or harassment allegations related to Dirschberger.

New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman (D) filed a lawsuit against the business and the brothers who founded it, saying the company violated employees» rights by «failing to protect its employees from pervasive sexual harassment, intimidation, and discrimination.»

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Assemblywoman Annie Rabbitt blasted Silver, stating, «I find it disgraceful and unfathomable that taxpayer money was used to pay off victims of sexual harassment and sexual misconduct committed by Assemblyman Vito Lopez, criminals conduct committed by yet another elected official.»

They found that employee perceptions of how exactly «sexual harassment» is defined by a company's policy can, in effect, eliminate or reshape the meaning of these policies and contradict the norms and values of the companies that try to enforce them.

In the U.K., a cyberstalking study conducted by the British Electronic Communication Harassment Organization at Bedford University found that harassment via social networking sites, mobile phone, and email was greater than stalking in - reHarassment Organization at Bedford University found that harassment via social networking sites, mobile phone, and email was greater than stalking in - reharassment via social networking sites, mobile phone, and email was greater than stalking in - real - life.

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Actress Sarah Tither - Kaplan told the LA Times that Franco's show of support for the Time's Up movement, founded by powerful women in Hollywood to combat workplace sexual harassment, was a «slap in my face.»

This year's ceremony is hosted by Seth Meyers whose opening monologue directly addressed the sexual harassment scandal to have rocked Hollywood in recent months, dishing out a joke about Harvey Weinstein which drew gasps from the audience - you can find a compilation of his best jokes here.

• Turn on the E network first and find it strange that Ryan Seacrest is on the red carpet, in light of recent harassment allegations by his former stylist, and am confused that fellow E correspondent Giuliana Rancic is broadcasting from the Roosevelt Hotel.

And on a night where the guests wore black in a bid to support Time's Up, a movement against sexual harassment founded on January 1, 2018, by Hollywood celebrities in response to the Weinstein effect and #MeToo, it perhaps couldn't have come at a better time.

Indeed, a study by the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network found that LGBTQ + students were significantly less likely to experience verbal or physical harassment or physical abuse in private schools than in public schools.

«Although, in theory, a single instance of sufficiently severe one - on - one peer harassment» could have the effect of denying students equal access to educational programs, the court found it «unlikely that Congress would have thought such behavior sufficient to rise to this level in light of the inevitability of student misconduct and the amount of litigation that would be invited by entertaining claims of official indifference to a single instance of one - on - one peer harassment.»

In the same report by the AAUW, researchers found that student survivors of sexual harassment were more likely to: have trouble sleeping and concentrating in class; develop depression; drop out of school activities and sports; or skip school entirely or even move schools.

The report cites previous research by the Equality and Human Rights Commission which found that 91 per cent of trans boys and 66 per cent of trans girls experienced harassment or bullying at school.

«It's important to guard against any precedent that would allow a school district to be found deliberately indifferent if bullying or harassment by others continues, despite a district's efforts to address reported misconduct,» said Thomas J. Gentzel, Executive Director, National School Boards Association.

«If the Court of Appeals affirms the lower court's decision, it will create a precedent where a district can be found liable based solely on wrongdoing by a school official, regardless of how vigilant a school district is in monitoring employees, and without the district being given the opportunity to address the harassment in question,» stated Thomas J. Gentzel, Executive Director, National School Boards Association.

In fact, the same study found almost 70 % of people struggle with serious financial distress for a year or more before considering bankruptcy, but eventually they are worn down by the relentless drum beat of creditor harassment.

The cardholder may find that he or she has to deal with daily calls and visits from the debt collectors, which can be quite intimidating despite the fact that consumer protection agencies prohibit the use of harassment or coercive tactics by debt collection agencies.

If you find an opossum has taken up residence under your home or in your wall or attic, you can persuade him to leave by using humane harassment techniques:

South by Southwest has pulled the plug on two panels meant to address the horrifying and ongoing issue of harassment found within the video game community, often targeted towards women.

The classic adventuresome duo, Adol and Dogi, arrive in the harbor of Altago City, and quickly find themselves in a scuffle with the Dragon Kinghts, the kingdom's military police body, when attempting to save a local girl from harassment by one of their commanding officers.

At trial, the Court found that for the final seven months of his employment, he was subjected to harassment and discrimination by his employer, which had refused to accomodate Mr. Keays» disability due to Chronic Fatigue Syndrome.

In the recent decision of Humber River Regional Hospital and Ontario Nurses Association («ONA»)(Cherubino Grievance), an Ontario arbitrator dismissed the union's grievance alleging harassment by a supervisor and found that neither management duties nor the employer's internal investigation process should be held to a standard of perfection.

The Ontario Court of Appeal found that $ 500,000 was not a «rational» punishment for Honda Canada's misconduct, after weighing the length and severity of the harassment and discrimination endured by Mr. Keays, considering the other damages awarded to him, and reviewing the range of punitive damages awards in comparative matters.

The District Court granted summary judgment to the individual defendants, finding that they had absolute immunity for their legislative acts and that the ordinances and resolutions adopted by the council did not constitute an official policy of harassment, as alleged by petitioners.

The tribunal found that the complaints of victimisation by the claimant's colleagues, breach of confidentiality, failure to consider the claimant for a superintendent post and instigation of disciplinary proceedings amounted to unwanted conduct and therefore the harassment claim was made out.

Cases of «ordinary» unfair dismissal may not so easily fall within the broad definition of harassment; however there are numerous cases of unfair dismissal where the behaviour of the employer amounts to a «bullying out of the job», for example by subjection to repeated disciplinary meetings, that could found a claim.

Faith - based discrimination and harassment on the rise A 2016 study by the Environics Institute found that one - third of Muslims in Canada have experienced discrimination or unfair treatment in the -LSB-...]