Sentences with phrase «of hostile work environment»

Examples of a hostile work environment include sexual harassment such as sexual advances, sexual comments, jokes or pornography.

As I will argue below, it my thesis that contrary to Court of Appeal's position that it is «unnecessary and undesirable to expand the court's involvement» into questions of a hostile work environment was wrong.

Although I have previously argued that the Piresferreira decision was legally wrong and, in fact, contrary to other appellate decisions including Sulz v. Canada, 2006 BCCA 582 and Queen v. Cognos, (the Supreme Court of Canada did not disturb or address the trial judge's award of $ 5,000 in damages for «emotional stress» in its decision in Queen v. Cognos Inc., [1993] 1 SCR 87,) this post will focus on a different issue: whether the decision highlights the differences to which claims of a hostile work environment can be put.

While Ontario's courts have been unwilling to accept claims of a hostile work environment when wielded as a «sword», Ontario courts have shown that they are prepared to consider such claims when employees advance such arguments as a «shield.»

Achieved dismissal of hostile work environment, retaliation and breach of implied contract claims, and dismissal of individual defendants (President and Vice President) in discrimination / harassments case, establishing law in our jurisdiction regarding personal liability of supervisors.

According to the report, Alyson Kirleis, an employment lawyer herself, filed an EEOC complaint and, subsequently, a federal discrimination suit against her longtime law firm, Dickie McCamey & Chilcote, alleging claims in the nature of a hostile work environment.

In December 2016, he co-counseled the matter of Melissa Bailey v. Randolph Police Department and achieved a favorable verdict on behalf of Police Officer Bailey regarding her claims of hostile work environment and retaliation under the New Jersey Law Against Discrimination.

He alleges numerous incidents which either contributed to creation of a hostile work environment or constituted retaliation.

His resignation comes hours after an independent investigation found that while there was no evidence of a hostile work environment in the Brain and Cognitive Sciences department, there was inappropriate behavior by Professor Florian Jaeger.

HE was the first victim of a hostile work environment.

And as many as 50 % of female tech workers will leave the industry because of the hostile work environment.

«The origin of this productivity gap seems unlikely to be related to inherent differences in talent or effort,» the authors write, «and may instead be related to differential access to resources and mentoring, greater rates of hostile work environments or sexual harassment, differences in self - perceptions, or other gender - correlated factors.»

Employers should take allegations of a hostile work environments seriously, and also be pro-active in fostering a safe and healthy work environment.

Not exact matches

The New York Times and CBS News, citing unnamed officials briefed on the matter, reported they included overseeing a hostile work environment as the White House doctor, allowed the overprescribing of drugs and drank on the job.

A few weeks later, Kris Duggan stepped down from his role as CEO of BetterWorks following a lawsuit that claimed a hostile work environment.

SoFi is only the latest in a string of Silicon Valley companies facing accusation of sexual harassment and hostile work environments.

In the past, models and celebrities who worked with the photographer accused him of creating a sexually hostile environment on set, encouraging provocative poses, and sexual assault and harassment, according to a comprehensive list of the allegations leveraged against Richardson compiled by Complex.

Female and minority software engineers at the company accused it of discriminating against them, alleging that management allowed a hostile work environment.

Unions, newly confident but reeling from years of what they would probably call a hostile work environment, can almost taste a big victory.

Legal precedent, meanwhile, tends to define sexual harassment as occurring either when a supervisor requests sex in exchange for a subordinate being promoted or not being fired, or when an employee is subject to behavior of a sexual nature that's so pervasive it creates a hostile work environment.

The organization refused to address these concerns, and I believe these misleading claims about me are part of an attempt to shift blame for the failure to remove employees who created an uncomfortable and hostile work environment within the Mavericks organization.»

Sources who have seen parts of it said the report chronicles an aggressive and fast - growing startup, resulting in a frequently chaotic and «hostile work environment» without adequate systems in place to ensure that violations such as sexual harassment and retaliatory behavior were dealt with professionally.

With massive and increasing structural deficits; exploding debt in all sectors; hostile demographics; social and political fracturing and disintegration; grotesque wealth inequality; extraordinary global trade competition; a complete collapse of respect for vital government organizations such as the Justice Department and FBI, which the people now realize have gone rogue; an extremely complex and corrosive global geopolitical environment; the real prospect of war, potentially nuclear and worldwide; not to mention numerous additional factors, we can only point to few other times in history more dangerous to the people's financial welfare, and therefore more overall bullish for gold, one of the only financial sanctuaries proven to work in times of dislocation.

This Christian is the one who created a hostile work environment and on top of it decided to distribute propaganda dvd's.

Additionally, every job description for managers and supervisors should include requirements regarding knowledge and proper enforcement of the anti-harassment policies and procedures, and caution that nonemployees such as customers, diners and guests can also create a hostile work environment for employees.

The organization refused to address these concerns, and I believe these misleading claims about me are part of an attempt to shift blame for the failure to remove employees who created an uncomfortable and hostile work environment within the Mavericks organization.»

Does he have a role in — or knowledge of — this hostile work environment?

Levine said it was a «rational conclusion» of the Assembly Ethics Committee that Kellner created a hostile working environment through flirtatious comments directed at his office staff.

His ex-deputy chief - of - staff Rita Pasarell claimed only that she was working in a hostile environment, while co-plaintiff Leah Hebert said that, at most, he made inappropriate comments to her, a source said.

Lauren Greene, the Texas Republican's former communications director, sued her boss in December 2014 over allegations of gender discrimination, sexual harassment and creating a hostile work environment.

It's no secret that Theresa May has been working to reduce net migration to the «tens of thousands», and make Britain a «really hostile environment for illegal migration».

All but five of the cases were brought by women alleging «gender discrimination, discrimination based on sexual orientation, sexual harassment, hostile work environment, and / or sexual assault,» according to the records obtained under the state Freedom of Information Law.

Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver stripped Kellner of his leadership positions and perks after an ethics panel found that he violated the chamber's sexual harassment policy and created a hostile working environment.

In the recent letter, however, Astacio explained that she has been mentally unwell because of a «hostile» work environment at City Court.

In both instances of alleged harassment (the other involved a male staffer), the complainants say their protests led to a hostile work environment.

Ms Thornberry said that the creation of a «hostile environment» policy could have affected the way that Home Office officials approach their work.

Rep. Blake Farenthold, R - Texas, resigned earlier in April amid an Ethics Committee investigation into claims of sexual harassment and a hostile work environment within his congressional office.

They have filed a notice of claim through a local attorney, saying they were subjected to a hostile and offensive work environment that forced them to leave their jobs.

Nassau's sexual harassment prevention policy, drafted in 2003, prohibits verbal or physical conduct of a sexual nature that affects an individual's employment or creates a hostile work environment.

In the survey, 84 % of women and 68 % of men in the trainee stage of their careers said they had received unwanted comments or experienced a hostile work environment in the field.

► In this week's issue of STM, Arthur Levine, senior vice chancellor for the health sciences and dean of the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine in Pennsylvania, and 18 other U.S. academic medical center leaders wrote that «[u] nstable funding for biomedical research has created a hostile working environment that erodes the time available for investigators to conduct their research, discourages innovative high - risk science, threatens to drive established investigators out of U.S. academic biomedical research, and creates uncertainty for trainees and early - career investigators.

«Too many students are faced with hostile environments, and it's making it hard for us to get work done,» says Susan Mahan - Nieber, a physics graduate student at Washington University in St. Louis and former president of the NAGPS.

In the lawsuit, filed on 15 May in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, Hornig alleges that Lipkin for years has discriminated against her on the basis of sex and created a hostile work environment, violating U.S. and New York civil rights laws.

Of course, as Walton and Cohen point out, such an intervention may not work in an openly hostile environment.

A Senate spending panel says that the National Science Foundation's mishandling of an Internet porn scandal is part of «systemic workforce management problems» that have created «a hostile work environment» for its 1300 employees.

BU's policy defines sexual harassment as «unwelcome conduct of a sexual nature that has the effect of creating a hostile or stressful living, learning, or working environment.»

He also asks about a sexual harassment complaint filed on behalf of Maggie (Alison Pill) after Will allegedly created a hostile work environment.

Work dissatisfaction may be the most universal of backdrops and the film takes efficient strides to make clear that its protagonists aren't lazy or vicious, just the products of some truly horrible bosses who do everything they can to create a hostile work environmWork dissatisfaction may be the most universal of backdrops and the film takes efficient strides to make clear that its protagonists aren't lazy or vicious, just the products of some truly horrible bosses who do everything they can to create a hostile work environmwork environment.

Crawford was dismissed for reportedly creating a hostile work environment on the set of the show.

It's more likely to be a series of subtle comments, jokes, or gestures that lead to a hostile work environment [1].