Sexual harassment and assault in law firms or
other workplaces occurs more easily where there is a power imbalance.
Not exact matches
Consequently, according to my admittedly unscientific survey of about a hundred of my clients, the average firing
occurs somewhere between six and 18 months after the business owner knew the employee was consistently performing poorly, consistently noncompliant, poisoning the
workplace and negatively affecting
others in it, or otherwise stinking up the joint.
The employee's extracurricular behaviour threatens the safety or well - being of
others in the
workplace when it
occurs away from work, or violates provincial occupational health and safety legislation.
On the
other hand, indirect discrimination is said to
occur when an employer introduces a condition, policy, rule or practice in the
workplace that applies to each employee but unfavourably treats those who share a protected characteristic.
Common situations where wrongful death may
occur include medical malpractice,
workplace accidents, vehicle accidents, accidental drowning and
others.
Be it workers compensation or personal injury and wrongful death
occurring outside the
workplace, such as: car accidents, dram shop actions (where a bar or restaurant serves a customer to the point of legal intoxication), medical malpractice, defective products, construction accidents, premises liability (e.g., slip and falls based on failure to provide a safe place to walk or play), or any
other type of preventable injury or death.
However, the starting point is not usually the date of exposure to asbestos — in any event would you be likely to know that,
other than that it was likely to have
occurred within say a period between 1970 and 1979 when you worked at a particular
workplace?
Workplace violence includes any threat or act of physical violence, intimidation, harassment, or
other threatening disruptive behavior that
occurs on the jobsite.
Heart problems: Even if a heart attack or
other heart problem
occurs away from the
workplace, it could be work - related.
Ministry inspectors saw
other health and safety hazards in the
workplace after the fatality
occurred.
Sexual harassment: «Inappropriate behavior of a sexual nature, such as repeated sexual advances or offensive remarks, that
occurs usually in a
workplace, school, or
other institutional setting, especially by a person in authority with respect to a subordinate or a student.»
Many employers loosely define
workplace violence as: Assaults,
other violent acts, or threats which
occur in or are related to the
workplace and entail a substantial risk of physical or emotional harm to individuals, or damage to company resources or capabilities.
Assaults,
other violent acts, or threats which
occur in or are related to the
workplace and entail a substantial risk of physical or emotional harm to individuals, or damage to company resources or capabilities.
Challenges in your relations to
others in the
workplace as well as misunderstandings may
occur due to this transit.
The Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women has also noted that Articles 2,5,11,12 and 16 of CEDAW require States to act to protect women against violence of any kind
occurring within the family,
workplace or any
other area of social life and that traditional attitudes which subordinate women, including forced marriages, will breach Articles 2 (f), 5 and 10 (c) of CEDAW.
«We know that these ups - and - downs may
occur in a social context of isolation from family,
workplace prejudice, and
other social barriers that are unique to gay and lesbian couples.»
The Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women has also noted that Articles 2,5,11,12 and 16 of CEDAW require States to act to protect women against violence of any kind
occurring within the family,
workplace or any
other area of social life (84) and that traditional attitudes which subordinate women, including forced marriages, will breach Articles 2 (f), 5 and 10 (c) of CEDAW.