Democratic state Sen. Liz Krueger spoke to WXXI's Karen DeWitt about sexual
harassment cases now rocking the country, including the case of state Assemblyman Steve McLaughlin, sanctioned this week for sexual harassment.
Not exact matches
ElsaMarie D'Silva, a former flight attendant at Jet Airways,
now runs a website crowdsourcing
cases of sexual
harassment and abuse.
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?
With a
now former county department head, ex-Social Services Commissioner Dirschberger, facing rape and criminal sex act counts in an Albany
case involving a subordinate, members of the Legislature's minority caucus want to know how many
harassment or discrimination
cases have involved county employees in recent years, how many were settled and whether public dollars were used to fund those settlements.
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.
The district has no
cases of
harassment or bullying to investigate
now — compared to the eight to 10 reports per month that occurred in the 2007 - 08 year.
Similar to OHS laws, many human rights laws, such as the Ontario Human Rights Code,
now also expressly prohibit workplace sexual
harassment; against whom that protection extends depends (as in any
case) on the wording of the law.
Mr Justice Underhill has
now validated the line taken by many of us that,
now that we have the modern EU law statutory definition of
harassment in place across all heads of discrimination, it is a matter of construing that definition, not of going back to the old
case law.
We are
now seeing many new
cases dealing with old
harassment because of #MeToo.
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.