Sentences with phrase «sexual harassment cases»

We have a long track record of aggressively helping clients with the various different types of sexual harassment cases.

There are multiple proposals from Democratic and Republican lawmakers that would end taxpayer - funded settlements for sexual harassment cases.

Meanwhile, he held a news conference outlining his plans to change how sexual harassment cases are resolved in state government.

Any legal action can be highly publicized, but workplace sexual harassment cases often are.

She mentioned the nation's current political climate including sexual harassment cases and the need for more women in power.

With more sexual harassment cases coming into the light, a debate is developing on how to stop similar workplace incidents from emerging in the future.

Employees of big French cleaning company win sexual harassment case.

May 4, 2018 • The school has a long history of patriotic activism, but recently it has suppressed student activists seeking disclosure of information about a campus sexual harassment case.

This isn't always true, of course, but I think there is a bias against women in things like sexual harassment cases.

There are several further principles which have emerged as guide posts for the determination of fair damage awards for emotional harm and injured feelings in human rights sexual harassment cases.

A successful sexual harassment case recovering significant compensation following incidents of grooming.

Harini Iyengar appeared on Newsnight on 24 October to discuss compensation and non-disclosure agreements in sexual harassment cases in light of the Harvey Weinstein allegations.

Bloom, a lawyer who built a reputation on representing women in high - profile sexual harassment cases against powerful men, came under fire from critics.

Independent Democratic Conference Leader Jeff Klein backed the leadership of Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, but says his office «failed miserably» in its handling of the Vito Lopez sexual harassment case.

Fox News, for example, reportedly paid a combined $ 90 million for settlements in sexual harassment cases involving former chairman and CEO Roger Ailes and former host Bill O'Reilly.

Mr. Houérou further disclosed: «Private companies across the globe spent $ 6.6 billion a year in settling sexual harassment cases at job places.

So on Monday he apologized for the Lopez mess, and offered a set of new policies for handling sexual harassment cases.

The State of New York paid out at least $ 5 million to settle sexual harassment cases from 2008 to 2010, with 5 of the 11 cases involving a single agency: The state Department of Corrections and Community Services.

Democratic state Sen. Liz Krueger spoke to WXXI's Karen DeWitt about sexual harassment cases now rocking the country, including the case of state Assemblyman Steve McLaughlin, sanctioned this week for sexual harassment.

Backlash continued to Fox News chairman Rupert Murdoch's dismissal of sexual harassment cases at Fox News over the years as «largely political.»

► «A trio of recent sexual harassment cases involving university scientists is drawing extensive attention from at least one lawmaker in Congress,» Warren Cornwall wrote at ScienceInsider on Wednesday.

The «more likely explanation» for why the Seattle paper did what it did, says the New York paper, is that «the withering spotlight» on women in sexual harassment cases makes them reluctant to give testimony.

And those are just highly publicized sexual harassment cases: For every Harvey Weinstein, there are roughly 86,000 discrimination and retaliation cases filed with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission each year.

ALBANY — The secret settlement in Assemblyman Vito Lopez's sexual harassment case stuck taxpayers with an extra bill of nearly $ 2,400 for mediation services, documents made public Monday revealed.

A top advisor to Republican gubernatorial candidate Rob Astorino criticized Senate Republicans on Monday for not forcefully denouncing Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver's handling of his chamber's sexual harassment cases over the years.

Dadey says there needs to be a means for the public to be assured that some kind of investigation is happening, particularly when the accusations are as «troubling» as those in the Assembly alleged sexual harassment case.

In Gebser v. Lago Vista Independent School District and Davis v. Monroe County Board of Education, the Court ruled that schools were not liable for damages in sexual harassment cases unless they displayed «deliberate indifference.»

Our lawyers have significant experience and success trying sexual harassment cases in state and federal courts in Illinois.

The applicant submitted certain sexual harassment cases in argument which involved higher awards of general damages: see for example S.H v. M -LSB-...] Painting, 2009 HRTO 595 (CanLII), 2009 HRTO 595 (CanLII)($ 40,000), and Smith, supra (total of $ 50,000).

The expertise needed to investigate research misconduct cases is very different than investigating sexual harassment cases, says Price, who spent 17 years at the Office of Research Integrity, which handles misconduct by federally funded biomedical researchers.

But with the recent wave of change that Hollywood witnessed after many sexual harassment cases were addressed against some of the most influential industry moguls — stars weaved cause into style beautifully, and took fashion diplomacy to a whole new level!

In the early 1990s I published a book called The First Stone, about a Melbourne University sexual harassment case; it took issue with a certain kind of victim feminism of the time, and to my great surprise (and a lot of people's severe annoyance) it stayed on the best - seller list for months.

Though she registered a written complaint with the HR manager, she did not receive any verbal or written communication from the Internal Complaints Committee (ICC) of the organisation, which looks into sexual harassment cases.

Albany has had its own sexual harassment cases in recent years and some lawmakers, including Assemblywoman Sandra Galef, want a uniform policy for handling allegations.

Interestingly enough, the firm hired to investigate future sexual harassment cases, Roemer Wallens Gold & Mineaux, contributed $ 1,000 to Lopez's own re-election campaign in August 2011 — nearly a year before the news of Lopez's harassment of his aides came to light, Board of Elections records show.

After Lopez's resignation became official on Monday, Speaker Silver announced plans to change the way sexual harassment cases are investigated in the future.

In a column for City & State this morning, former Assemblyman Michael Benjamin writes that its the Rapfogel scandal — not the twin sexual harassment cases involving his conference members during Silver's watch — that could spell the end of his tenure, which dates back to 1994.

Syracuse Mayor Stephanie Miner, who is mulling a primary challenge to the governor next fall, is taking a wait - and - see approach about the Cuomo administration's handling of the Sam Hoyt sexual harassment case.

As the sordid details real themselves in the Micah Kellner sexual harassment case, inevitably the discussion turns to what exactly happened when people made legitimate attempts to put a stop it.

This is not the first sexual harassment case settled against Lopez.

Likewise, there was no official condemnation of the Kellner or Gabryszak sexual harassment cases.

«Democratic Majority Leader Senator Andrea Stewart cousins has introduced a comprehensive package of legislation that will combat sexual harassment practices in government and establish a division at the NYS Human rights commission to address sexual harassment cases.

Cuomo answered, «Their answer to not passing the Women's Equality Act is I didn't step in on Shelly Silver's — which sexual harassment case are you talking about?

«In the wake of the hearings the number of sexual harassment cases filed with the EEOC [U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission] doubled,» the final credits read.

The allegations against Stallone come after disgraced producer Harvey Weinstein was accused by a number of women of sexual harassment cases spanning a 30 - year period, and actor Kevin Spacey has faced claims of sexual misconduct from several males, including Richard Dreyfuss» son Harry and «Star Trek: Discovery's Anthony Rapp.

The power dynamic of a lawyer - client relationship is distinguishable from classic sexual harassment cases between employer / employee because it is the lawyer who works for the client.