If Bill 132 is passed, it will definitively
make sexual harassment in the workplace a health and safety issue.
Not exact matches
If similar comments were
made in the
workplace «it could be considered
sexual harassment, and the employer could be held liable,» she said.
Yet
in December, the tech giant took an important step to
make its
workplace culture more amenable to aggrieved employees when it eliminated forced arbitration agreements with workers who bring
sexual harassment claims.
Workplace whoopee has remained a hot topic since the 1998 U.S. Supreme Court decision
in Burlington Industries Inc. v. Ellerth, which
makes it easier for employees to file
sexual -
harassment lawsuits even if they can't show significant job - related consequences.
Coles said it's
made her consider not only issues of
sexual violence, but all forms of
harassment or silencing of voices that can happen
in or be rooted
in the
workplace.
Respondents found the outlook for women equally bleak: 51 % said that the current reckoning over
sexual harassment and assault will not
make «much difference»
in the opportunities available to women
in the
workplace.
D. Support opportunities for women media practitioners
in career training / development, and advocate for promotions based on merit, for independent decision -
making and for freedom from
sexual harassment in the
workplace.
From the onset of employment it should be
made clear to every employee that
sexual harassment is unacceptable
in the
workplace and that the company does not retaliate against anyone who notifies the company of potential
harassment.
«We have to
make sure that this
workplace and frankly every
workplace is free of
harassment,
sexual and otherwise, and I would hope that
in this next week and a half that we have, we will be able to put something forward that expresses our contempt for
sexual harassment.»
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.
In a 2013 radio interview on the «The Opie and Anthony Show,» Donald Trump Jr. complains about women making charges of sexual harassment in the workplace, suggesting that women who have a trouble with men making certain comments should go teach kindergarte
In a 2013 radio interview on the «The Opie and Anthony Show,» Donald Trump Jr. complains about women
making charges of
sexual harassment in the workplace, suggesting that women who have a trouble with men making certain comments should go teach kindergarte
in the
workplace, suggesting that women who have a trouble with men
making certain comments should go teach kindergarten.
Flanagan spokesman Scott Reif
made a distinction between positions held by the Senate GOP and Trump's national candidacy, saying the Senate passed women's equality legislation that «ensures equal pay for equal work, protects the victims of domestic violence and creates zero tolerance for
sexual harassment in the
workplace.»
They spend much of their lives at work, but the rise
in sexual harassment suits has
made workplace relationships tricky at best.
With stars using the 2018 Golden Globes as a platform to speak out about the Time's Up initiative, gender inequality and
sexual harassment in the
workplace, all eyes will be on the SAG Awards (which will include mostly female presenters) to see if Hollywood uses the event to
make the same statement.
I once represented a victim of
sexual harassment in the
workplace and am confident I
made a positive difference
in her life.
More importantly though, it highlights how NDAs — standard practice
in employment disputes
in law and other sectors — could
make it harder for law firms to really crack down on
sexual assault and
harassment in the
workplace.
The Action Plan suggests the OHSA amendments could include a new employer obligation to «
make every reasonable effort to protect workers from
harassment, including
sexual harassment in the
workplace».
«
Workplace sexual harassment» means: (a) engaging in a course of vexatious comment or conduct against a worker in a workplace because of sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression, where the course of comment or conduct is known or ought reasonably to be known to be unwelcome, or (b) making a sexual solicitation or advance where the person making the solicitation or advance is in a position to confer, grant or deny a benefit or advancement to the worker and the person knows or ought reasonably to know that the solicitation or advance is u
Workplace sexual harassment» means: (a) engaging
in a course of vexatious comment or conduct against a worker
in a
workplace because of sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression, where the course of comment or conduct is known or ought reasonably to be known to be unwelcome, or (b) making a sexual solicitation or advance where the person making the solicitation or advance is in a position to confer, grant or deny a benefit or advancement to the worker and the person knows or ought reasonably to know that the solicitation or advance is u
workplace because of sex,
sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression, where the course of comment or conduct is known or ought reasonably to be known to be unwelcome, or (b)
making a
sexual solicitation or advance where the person
making the solicitation or advance is
in a position to confer, grant or deny a benefit or advancement to the worker and the person knows or ought reasonably to know that the solicitation or advance is unwelcome.
«
workplace sexual harassment»: (a) engaging
in a course of vexatious comment or conduct against a worker
in a
workplace because of sex,
sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression, where the course of comment or conduct is known or ought reasonably to be known to be unwelcome, or (b)
making a
sexual solicitation or advance where the person
making the solicitation or advance is
in a position to confer, grant or deny a benefit or advancement to the worker and the person knows or ought reasonably to know that the solicitation or advance is unwelcome.
Employers,
in addition to their obligation to protect workers from
workplace violence, must
make every reasonable effort to protect workers from
harassment, including
sexual harassment in the
workplace.
«
Workplace sexual harassment» is now defined in the legislation to mean (a) engaging in a course of vexatious comment or conduct against a worker in a workplace because of sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression, where the course of comment or conduct is known or ought reasonably to be known to be unwelcome, or (b) making a sexual solicitation or advance where the person making the solicitation or advance is in a position to confer, grant or deny a benefit or advancement to the worker and the person knows or ought reasonably to know that the solicitation or advance is u
Workplace sexual harassment» is now defined
in the legislation to mean (a) engaging
in a course of vexatious comment or conduct against a worker
in a
workplace because of sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression, where the course of comment or conduct is known or ought reasonably to be known to be unwelcome, or (b) making a sexual solicitation or advance where the person making the solicitation or advance is in a position to confer, grant or deny a benefit or advancement to the worker and the person knows or ought reasonably to know that the solicitation or advance is u
workplace because of sex,
sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression, where the course of comment or conduct is known or ought reasonably to be known to be unwelcome, or (b)
making a
sexual solicitation or advance where the person
making the solicitation or advance is
in a position to confer, grant or deny a benefit or advancement to the worker and the person knows or ought reasonably to know that the solicitation or advance is unwelcome.
The trial judge found that the incidents complained of took place outside the
workplace, the employee had
made a timely apology to the victim which he had accepted and several of the incidents alleged to have amounted to
sexual harassment and breach of the employment contract
in fact was found to be «consensual conduct among friends».
TORONTO — Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne said Tuesday she wants to
make sure enforcement of rules governing
sexual harassment in the
workplace is adequate
in the wake of allegations surrounding ex-CBC radio host Jian Ghomeshi.
Even back
in the day when my senior colleague
made her outrageous «breeder» comments, there was awareness of the harm of
sexual harassment in the
workplace.
Introducing an obligation for employers to
make every reasonable effort to protect workers from
harassment, including
sexual harassment,
in the
workplace