Sentences with phrase «harassment in the workplace gives»

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The final deal includes a provision extending protections to independent contractors, consultants and other non-employees in a given workplace, making an employer liable for sexual harassment against them.

As I reported on my BAM's Blog, Munn, an OU alumna and actor known for her roles in HBO's «The Newsroom» and the «X-Men» film franchise, will give the keynote address and receive the inaugural Voice for Justice Award for her leadership and activism against sexual harassment in the workplace.

The new legislation gave the commission the power to do systemic reviews for any aspect of policing, McPhail explains, and the Minister of Public Safety requested an investigation into workplace harassment in the RCMP.

In the meantime, feel free to give the team at Ketchmark and McCreight, P.C. a call for more information on our workplace harassment representation or to organize a free consultation with one of our experienced lawyers.

The other amendments to the OHSA, which are found mainly in the workplace violence and harassment framework (Part III.0.1), apply broadly to all types of harassment, but also clearly cover situations of sexual harassment given the new definitions described above.

Our firm's experience in investigations, workplace harassment and misconduct is diverse and decades deep — giving us unique insight into cases and their complexities.

It was the first piece of legislation that actually compelled employers to perform risk assessments of potential violence in the workplace (all violence, not just sexual violence), institute programs and policies for workplace violence and harassment (all harassment, not just sexual), give training to employees with respect to both violence and harassment, and — most importantly — develop specific procedures to enable both the reporting and investigation of employee complaints of harassment.

While the Act obligates employers to have a policy that enables workers to bring complaints forward, and the Board has the authority under section 50 to protect individuals who invoke that procedural right, the Board does not have any general authority to remedy the underlying workplace harassment that gave rise to the complaint in the first place.

Subsection 5 (2) gives every employee a right to freedom from harassment in the workplace on the basis of similar prohibited grounds.

When Image & TV Expert, Speaker, and Author Sarah Shah asked an audience about attire and image in the workplace, a male in the group shared that, given the hypersensitivity to workplace sexual harassment, it can be uncomfortable when a female wears something as simple as a sheath dress.