Sentences with phrase «harassment complaints made against»

After weeks of turmoil over his affair with a former staffer and a sexual harassment complaint made against him, Barnaby Joyce has stepped down as Nationals leader and Deputy PM.

Not exact matches

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.

* Assurance that employees who make complaints of harassment or provide information related to such complaints will be protected against retaliation;

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.

Astorino says it's hypocritical of Cuomo to promote women's rights when he didn't call for the ouster of Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver after sexual - harassment complaints were made against some Assembly Democrats.

Former Lib Dem chief executive was suspended on January 20 after failing to apologise to a number of women who had made sexual harassment complaints against him despite Nick Clegg telling him: «No apology, no whip».

The city teachers union pushed back against comments Mayor Bill de Blasio made that seemed to undercut the validity of some sexual - harassment complaints made by Department of Education employees.

Speaking to the Guardian, Smith said women who made sexual harassment complaints told the party hierarchy more than once they would go public if no disciplinary action was taken against Rennard.

«I was made aware in December last year that a complaint made against me was being referred to Labour's national constitutional committee as a potential breach of the party's policy on sexual harassment.

Although the amount of the settlement was never made public, the funds were provided by the Congressional Office of Compliance, an agency set up in 1995 to resolve labor and other disputes, including sexual - harassment complaints, brought by congressional staffers against lawmakers.

One little girl, Lucy, files a «harassment» complaint against the school's founder when he forces kids to stop jumping onto a mattress from some storage bins (after two kids injure themselves doing so), and then announces her intention to ignore any school policies made unilaterally by the administration.

Carlson, the former host of a daytime show at Fox, alleges that Ailes retaliated against her because of complaints she had made about discrimination and harassment.

[50] An interpretation that allows employers to penalize or retaliate against workers who make a workplace harassment complaint would entirely undermine the procedural mechanism that the Act creates through which harassment issues can be brought forward in the workplace.

An interpretation of the Act that finds employers are obligated to create and maintain a policy by which workers may bring forward complaints of harassment but are nevertheless free to terminate, or otherwise penalize or retaliate against, any worker for having actually made a complaint under that policy is, in my view, untenable.

It's simply incoherent to say that an employer has to implement a policy detailing how it will respond to a harassment complaint, but is nonetheless free to ignore the policy - and even engage in reprisals against the employee who made the complaint.