Sentences with phrase «harassment cases makes»

When accusations of assault or harassment cases make headlines, it's often because there's a powerful man at the centre — Roger Ailes, Bill Cosby, Bill O'Reilly, and now Harvey Weinstein.

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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.

Although no one was charged in the case, the bullying prompted officials in the girl's hometown of Dardenne Prairie, Missouri, to make Internet harassment a misdemeanor, punishable by a fine of up to $ 500 and 90 days in jail.

High profile edge cases, like the sexual harassment allegations at Uber, have the unfortunate effect of making ongoing diversity and gender equality issues seem insignificant in comparison.

From allegations of sexual harassment against former Fox News CEO Roger Ailes to the court case against former CBC radio host Jian Ghomeshi stemming from complaints of abusive behaviour both inside and outside the workplace, recent high - profile cases of harassment and violence have made it clear that many organizations struggle to uphold appropriate standards of conduct within their ranks.

There were as many as five complaints of sexual harassment made against employees in the mayor's office during the de Blasio administration, City Hall officials said, but they refused to say how the perpetrators in those cases were disciplined.

I guess it doesn't bother you Speaker Silver paid 102,000 of YOUR TAX MONEY to make a sexual harassment case go away.

How many more sexual harassment cases will now surface now that staff is brave enough to make a complaint without fear of losing their earnest careers?

ALBANY — The secret settlement in Assemblyman Vito Lopez's sexual harassment case stuck taxpayers with an extra bill of nearly $ 2,400 for mediation services, documents made public Monday revealed.

As the sordid details real themselves in the Micah Kellner sexual harassment case, inevitably the discussion turns to what exactly happened when people made legitimate attempts to put a stop it.

One aide who worked for a legislator who resigned amid sexual harassment accusations suggested that lawmakers» campaign accounts, which lawmakers can use to pay for their legal defense, also be made available to harassment victims in case of a settlement or civil rights violation.

The attorney general alleges Maziarz used a «pass - through scheme» that directed money from his Senate campaign account and the Niagara County GOP to make «secret campaign payments» to a former Senate staff who left the state payroll in the midst of a sexual harassment case.

Another bill would crack down on sexual harassment in the public sector by outlining the rights of employees and interns facing harassment, would make supervisors accountable for bad conduct they were aware of but allowed to continue, and require legislative investigations into harassment cases, which currently can stretch out for a year, to be concluded within two months.

Leading lawyer Lord Carlile said it was an «absurdity» to ask Lord Rennard to say sorry for sexual harassment he strenuously denies and said the actions of the Liberal Democrats in the case made «the North Korean legal system look benign.»

Bullying has been making headlines lately, with the case of Tyler Clementi, the gay college student who committed suicide after falling victim to Internet harassment.

Some profiles aren't complete making it hard for interested members to discern the identity and intent of the people behind the profiles hence facilitating cases of religious harassment and other vices.

First, instead of waiting until a case had been resolved before making the investigation public (its policy for decades), OCR now announced with great fanfare the initiation of all sexual harassment investigations.

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I'm not sure a case of harassment could be made out (it would depend on the circumstances in which you purportedly did those things or threatened her, except for touching her.

It isn't absolutely impossible for factually true statements to constitute harassment, in a legal sense, but in those cases, it is the frequency and character of the communications, rather than their content or intended recipient, that make them harassing.

Questions: If an employee alleges / reports there has been sexual harassment but says he / she doesn't want to pursue it, just make the employer aware of it «in case», what are the employer's obligations?

What is also unique about this case is that the person identified as the RateMDs poster was involved in different lawsuit on the other side of Dr. Foda in Foda v. Capital Health Region, [2007] A.J. No. 22; 2007 ABQB 19, where he was making a claim for breach of contract, conspiracy, harassment, defamation, and direct interference with economic relations.

The recent sexual harassment allegations have made us question whether or not such cases are rising, but the dismissed concept is that nothing has really changed; the powerful will continue to have the option of abusing their authority, victims will always feel humiliated and sexual harassment claims will remain a «he said, she said» battle.

The question of when an anonymity order should made in cases involving allegations of serious sexual harassment was recently considered by the EAT in BBC v Roden.

In order to make a case for workplace harassment, you must be able to prove each of the following elements in court:

As readers of this blog will recall, in the 2011 case of Conforti v Investia Financial Services Inc, 2011 CanLII 60897 (ON LRB) the Ontario Labour Relations Board held that an employer's dismissal of an employee who had made a complaint of workplace harassment pursuant to the provisions of Bill 168 was not an act of «reprisal» as defined within the Occupational Health and Safety Act.

On the other hand, there are a couple of cases decided by Vice-Chair Wilson (i.e. Nunes v. Ulbricht) which consider the issue settled: «The Board has determined that it does not have jurisdiction to inquire into a harassment complaint or an allegation that an employee has been dismissed for making a harassment complaint known to the employer.»

In the usual case, the only inquiry that the Board will make into the underlying allegations of harassment is whether the employer terminated, or otherwise penalized, the worker for having filed the harassment complaint.

Dean v Abercrombie & Fitch: direct disability discrimination, harassment and failure to make reasonable adjustments Successfully represented claimant with prosthetic arm in a high - profile case against fashionable clothing store Abercrombie & Fitch.

Anger - Kraavi v University of Cambridge Harini represented in the Employment Tribunal a senior woman academic who brought claims of victimisation alleging that the University had not abided by the promises made in the settlement agreement for her first case, in which she had brought claims of equal pay, sexual harassment, unfair dismissal and sex discrimination.

Recent cases include Camurat v Thurrock Borough Council [2015] E.L.R. 1, on the inter-relationship between confidentiality in compromise agreements, duties of employers in giving references, and statutory duties to make safeguarding disclosures, Shalom v Newham College (race, religion and age discrimination, harassment, victimisation, failure to investigate), Bilqes v Burnley College (religious discrimination).

I make my case through recounting a story from which I make some general observations, the story being my own experience of sexual harassment and assault (i.e., unconsented to sexual touching) by a senior lawyer early in my career.