Sentences with phrase «sort of harassment»

The new moderation tool allows the users to satiate their brand of censorship as appropriate as they may find it in their own way so that they can avoid possible conflicts and dodge any sort of harassment complaints.

A number of climate scientists reported this sort of harassment, and apparently some threats were deemed serious enough to merit police protection of one sort or another being put in place.

Deadline reports that 94 % of women surveyed by the National Sexual Violence Resource Center said they had been subjected to some sort of harassment or abuse by an older individual in a position of power.

«Whether this sort of harassment should be countenanced is not about any particular political or special - interest groups; instead, it is a fundamental question about whether anyone can use (or, rather, misuse) public record laws to stifle science,» the legal defense fund said in the amicus brief.

«Let's say there is some sort of harassment issue or sexual misconduct; it doesn't matter if they were great friends in the beginning, at the end it's going to be a nightmare.»

Not exact matches

If Twitter is serious about being a force for good in the world and a haven from harassment for its users, it will have to start by making it harder to tweet without any sort of accountability.

«Document any form of harassment,» advises the post, and make sure not to rise to the bait and let the person's horribleness provoke you into behaving in just the sort of negative ways they've falsely attributed to you.

Harassment or discrimination of any sort will not be tolerated.

On the same afternoon that NPR's David Folkenflik was to release his scoop on Los Angeles Times publisher Ross Levinsohn's alleged history of workplace harassment, Levinsohn himself delivered a manifesto of sorts on Tronc's...

Meanwhile, government critics and rights groups say authorities have merely changed tactics, instituting a sort of catch - and - release policy whereby dissidents are briefly detained as a form of harassment.

The survey of 1,377 workers found that 39 % of staff, MPs and peers had experienced non-sexual bullying and harassment of some sort while on the parliamentary estate.

Without directly acknowledging the very disgusting sexual harassment allegations multiple staffers have made against him (including begging, thigh - rubbing, and giving a woman pink eye), Assemblyman Vito Lopez announced today that he will resign, sort of.

The Protection from Harassment Act 1997 is intended to stop this sort of general behaviour, but it requires a repeated action.

Panepinto, who won with less than 50 percent of the vote in 2014, said during his announcement that his decision was both personal and professional, citing the cancer battle being fought by his law firm partner, a looming crackdown on lawmakers» outside income and some sort of sexual harassment probe involving his former chief of staff.

Repeatedly, a series of particularly egregious complaints of sexual harassment or rape has led the Legislature to a watershed moment of sorts, producing much - needed reform in how accusers are treated and how their complaints are handled.

Evolution may predispose us to translate power into sexual opportunity, but we pass sexual harassment laws to thwart this sort of dominance behavior in the workplace.

I think it's different than other online media because, while harassment is expected on almost any sort of social media, the good part is that you can protect yourself through privacy settings — you can limit who can be your friend / follower.

«We're saying goodbye to a time where we allowed for homophobia, for transphobia, for sexual harassment, for any sort of racism.

As one 16 - year - old told us while we were researching our recent report, The Talk: How Adults Can Promote Young People's Healthy Relationships and Prevent Misogyny and Sexual Harassment: «One thing that I think all girls go through at some age is the realization that their body, seemingly, is not entirely for themselves anymore... the unfortunate thing is that we all just sort of accept it as a fact of life.»

One deplorable result of this increased co-existence has been the rise in sexual harassment, which women have suffered in all sorts of occupations and workplace settings.

The company has come under serious heat dealing with all sorts of different scandals from sexual harassment to discrimination, an exodus of executives (including a CEO / founder resignation), city - wide and country - wide bans, and countless boycotts, yet it's continued to grow at record levels.

An ex-employee of Uncharted developer Naughty Dog has come forward this week with allegations of a wholly more shocking sort: in a statement on Twitter, David Ballard has admitted that he was fired from the company after filing a sexual harassment complaint.

@Atticus Back when I was in management, I've heard all sorts of sexual harassment claims.

There are reasons that people hire lawyers to write these sorts of ethics rules into company codes of conduct: (1) companies realized placing the entire onus on the person who has suffered discrimination or harassment to personally prosecute their claims is absurd and good employees would seek out corporations that don't sanction such conduct; and (2) businesses understood that providing ethical and social norms of behavior could go some distance to preventing bad behavior.

Some compliments are the sort of innocuous comments which are common in all workplaces and do not amount to sexual harassment.

«Disagreeing with the trial court's grant of summary judgment, the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has held that 3 incidents over two years, combined with other testimony showing continuing problems in the workplace, is enough to require a jury [to] sort out whether a restaurant should be held liable for sexual harassment...»

In this column I explore the thought that sexual harassment and sexual discrimination in the legal profession must be understood with this sort of breadth of perspective: it is conduct reflecting the pathologies of the specific men who do it; it in no way reflects the conduct of all — or even that many — men in the profession; yet it is conduct that reflects aspects of our professional culture, aspects that we need to address to achieve gender equity and fairness.

Since this decision, the number of harassment claims against employers has increased dramatically and the courts have been called upon to identify the blurred line between the sort of regrettable conduct that each of us is subjected to from time to time and unacceptable conduct which PHA 1997 prohibits.

Despite that, through the use of social media which the Employer has participated in via @TTChelps, patrons feel free without consequence to subject bargaining unit employees to all sorts of abuse, including derogatory language, sexual harassment, sexist and racist comments, and threats of violence.

The objection that is often raised against this sort of regime is that it would be difficult to resolve the difference between true harassment or bullying, and «firm management».

Online harassment has real consequences, but laws against it are sort of hit or miss so protection against it is sparse.

Over half of respondents had been subjected to some sort of cyberbullying or online harassment, but 40 % admitted to behaving in this manner themselves.