Sentences with phrase «harassment by»

An Illinois federal district court has ruled on whether a lawsuit against a condominium association and its property manager for violations of the federal Fair Housing Act can proceed when handicapped resident alleged that nothing was done to protect him from harassment by other tenants and that the resident's requested accommodations were refused.

Harassment by an ex can be damaging to your mental health, especially when you think you MUST talk to them in order to see your children!

In a letter to Congress today, Planned Parenthood detailed how recent attacks are part of a decade - long pattern of illegal harassment by extremists, whose focus is banning abortion and preventing women from accessing preventive health care at Planned Parenthood health centers.

He filed for temporary sole custody of the children, alleging that he feared for their safety because of incidents involving harassment by S.L. and that she also had extramarital affairs and abused alcohol and drugs.

The case of a California minor who sued his public high school guidance counselor and the school district for damages arising out of sexual abuse and harassment by the counselor sends a clear warning to public and private employers alike: If you knew or should have known of an employee's propensities for potentially damaging behavior... Read more»

The original complaint filed by Reyes describes numerous allegations of harassment by Sanchez between February and April of 2017.

The cries for embattled U.S. Rep. Elizabeth Esty to step down for not protecting female staffers who said they experienced violence, death threats and sexual harassment by her former chief of staff intensified on Saturday, with fellow Democrats saying the...

The cries for embattled U.S. Rep. Elizabeth Esty to step down for not protecting female staffers who said they experienced violence, death threats and sexual harassment by her former chief of staff intensified on Saturday, with fellow Democrats...

And with more pretexts for harassment by the state, our friends in government will have more tools available to extract money from our hides via traffic tickets and court costs.

And until the repayment is done, your family may have to bear the repeated harassment by the money lenders or agents.

Reduce buyer's harassment by dealing with transparency and honesty.

This was a clear case of harassment by Schrenk with unequivocal evidence to this effect (most notably through email).

Although laws against cyber-bullying are often justified by the need to protect young persons (especially children) from attacks and harassment by their peers, the parties in Crouch were adults, former partners in a technology start up who had had a falling out.

Vandermeyden's discrimination lawsuit alleges that she experienced, «unwelcome and pervasive harassment by men on the factory floor including, but not limited to, inappropriate language, whistling, and catcalls.»

(i) harassment will no longer have to be «on the ground of» sex, but merely «related to» it; (ii) harassment will apply to a witness of the opposite sex to the recipient of the behaviour; (iii) an employer will be liable for harassment for failing to take reasonable steps to protect an employee from repeated harassment by third parties; (iv) pregnancy or maternity leave discrimination will no longer require a comparator; (vi) it will be contrary to the Act to deprive a woman of non-contractual bonuses in respect of the two - week period of compulsory maternity leave; and (vii) the same claims of discrimination in relation to terms and conditions of employment will be available in relation to additional maternity leave as in relation to ordinary maternity leave.

The CBC reported Gold was looking at the «working relationships and interactions» at the law school including «alleged harassment by the dean,» an accusation made in a grievance filed through the faculty union.

The article cites one example of a forced reorganization that is thought to have provoked around thirty suicides in 2008 and 2009 among the 100,000 employees, with an investigation into allegations of psychological harassment by the CEO.

In the case of harassment by consumers or customers, it is the employer that has the greatest control over workplace conditions, and thus it must intervene effectively to stop harassment by third parties (Jalbert, supra).

Similarly, in its Workplace Harassment Policy, the TTC recognized its obligation to protect all employees from harassment that contravenes the Ontario Human Rights Code, and its obligation to take all reasonable and practical measures to protect employees from harassment by members of the community.

[133] It is clear from the totality of the evidence that the TTC has failed to take all reasonable and practical measures to protect bargaining unit employees from that type of harassment by members of the community, as required by the HRC, the Agreement, and the Workplace Harassment Policy.

Chicago associates Laura Bacon and Brittany Bogaerts co-authored this column noting that EEOC v. Costco serves as a reminder that employers may be held responsible for customer harassment of employees and that hostile work environment claims are not limited to claims of harassment by other employees.

California is also working on this aspect of the issue, where the legislature is considering parallel efforts to protect legislative staff and lobbyists from harassment by lawmakers.

The likely changes to legislation following Coleman will probably be most significant for disability discrimination law where the language of the legislation does not currently appear to cover direct discrimination or harassment by association and age discrimination, where the language of the legislation does not appear to cover direct discrimination by association.

This kind of power imbalance will be viewed harshly by our tribunals if the subordinate alleges harassment by her or his superior.

It would mean that where serious harassment by an employee in the course of his employment has occurred, the victim... would not have the right normally provided by the law to persons who suffer a wrong in that circumstance, namely, the right to have recourse to the wrongdoer's employer.

They claimed damages on behalf of the late Ms. Dorval's estate for suffering, pain and inconvenience because of constant harassment by her former spouse and police inaction, and personally for solatium doloris, funeral expenses and loss of emotional support.

More importantly however, the treatment of sexual harassment under the traumatic mental stress policy shows an attitude towards sexual harassment by the WSIB that does not favour entitlement.

In recognition of recent reports of sexual harassment by young female political staffers, Bill C - 65 will also expand these protections to include parliamentary and political staff.

The law has recognized the effect of workplace sexual harassment by imposing legal obligations on employers to take steps both to prevent it and to act when it does occur.

New York City Lawsuit Alleges Sexual Harassment by Celebrity Chef, Highlights Problems in the Restaurant Business, New York Employment Attorney Blog, November 7, 2017

The team were successful in securing an interim injunction in respect of a campaign of sustained, anonymous and malicious harassment by email, message boards and social media.

In this case involving workplace racial harassment by the plaintiff's co-workers, we obtained a reduction of a $ 24 million punitive judgment against their employer to $ 2.5 million.

New York Lawsuit Alleges Sexual Harassment by Makeup Artist at Upscale Manhattan Department Store

New York City Lawsuit Alleges Sexual Harassment by Celebrity Chef, Highlights Problems in the Restaurant Business

The Tribunal assumed jurisdiction over the complaint and found that workers on a construction site are protected from discriminatory harassment by persons working for another employer on the same site.

Taking these steps will help employers minimize liability related to workplace harassment, even if they come before an adjudicator who, unlike the adjudicator in George Brown College, interprets the OHSA such that the OHSA holds employers responsible for harassment by their employees.

In a decision released in April 20131, a Manitoba adjudicator dealt with a complaint involving a retail store employee who had been subjected to a lengthy and ongoing course of sexual harassment by a customer.

In April 2016, an independent state university school newspaper, the Kentucky Kernel, made an Open Records Act demand on the University of Kentucky, seeking documents related to allegations of sexual harassment by a tenured faculty member.

The January 2017 decision, involving a Victoria based lawyer, confirms that sexual harassment by a -LSB-...]

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.

Combining our longstanding and market - leading labor and employment team with deep crisis management experience and the investigative backgrounds of former leaders from the US Attorney General's Office, former federal prosecutors, state prosecutors, and leaders from other government agencies — including a special team of more than 30 female attorneys — we built a team over decades that can strategically and effectively manage complex internal investigations on behalf of clients and defend them in the matters that result when allegations of harassment by a top member of management becomes a crisis.

The question is not whether harassment by way of the Internet should be a crime but whether a special provision is needed to extend to the Internet what appears on its face to be a medium - neutral offence.

The proposed changes will place additional obligations on employers to address and prevent incidents of workplace harassment by amending the Occupational Health and Safety Act (OHSA).

Then there is the worst, which is the physical harassment by inappropriate touching or worse.

There could be written harassment by sending emails or writing notes and leaving sexual images at a coworker's desk.

Additionally, the ADA prohibits harassment by an employer on the basis of a disability.

Future wage loss: In a recent column, I wrote about former RCMP constable Nancy Sulz who was awarded $ 950,000 as damages, including prospective wages lost, for prolonged harassment by her commanding officer that left her suffering from such severe depression that she was unlikely to ever be able to work again.

The proposed changes will create additional obligations on employers to address and prevent incidents of workplace harassment by amending the Occupational Health and Safety Act («OHSA»).

In Elizabeth, New Jersey, Stanley Champagne is accused of choosing to take his harassment to the «worse» level of physical harassment by holding his coworker Katiria Velez by her sweatshirt and masturbating on her, according to Courthouse News Service.

Just prior to trial, defence lawyer Joseph Neuberger discovered that the other male party was charged with criminal harassment by the same complainant.