Sentences with phrase «to prevent harassment»

Educators should prevent harassment of and discrimination against students because of sexual orientation.

The program is part of the district's effort to implement state policies aimed at preventing harassment and bullying in schools.

Employers have a defence to a claim if they can show that they took «all reasonable steps» to prevent the harassment taking place.

The first guide deals with preventing harassment, discrimination, and violence in the legal workplace.

Even if you can restrict who can call you, the responsibility of preventing harassment now falls upon the user.

Hotels» liability can depend on whether they're sufficiently aggressive in responding to allegations from employees and on the policies they have in place to prevent harassment in the first place, said civil rights attorney Debra Katz, a partner at Katz, Marshall & Banks who represents employees in harassment cases.

Because a school «has a duty to provide a nondiscriminatory environment that is conducive to learning,» when hostile environments are impeding the right to learn, educators must take action to «end the harassment, eliminate any hostile environment and its effects, and prevent the harassment from recurring.»

In its 2012 Strategic Enforcement Plan for 2013 - 2016, the U.S. Equal Opportunity Commission listed among its six priorities «Preventing Harassment Through Systemic Enforcement and Targeted Outreach.»

Young said the idea is to «help prevent harassment, punish abusers and protect victims.»

And the governor wants to void forced arbitration policies or clauses in employee contracts that prevent harassment cases from being considered in law enforcement probes and court trials.

«This will enable us to reach more accurate conclusions about preventing harassment and devise more effective strategies for its removal from the workplace.

Given that up to 12 per cent of employees may be exposed at any one time, the researchers are now calling for more research to be conducted to investigate the role of the organization in enabling or preventing harassment within workplaces.

The Act prevents harassment such as calls at work, unfounded threats of law suits, and other harassing collector tricks.

The memo will therefore be a huge concern for Google, particularly as colleagues who are offended by it could claim harassment and Google could be held liable unless they can show they took reasonable steps to prevent harassment occurring.

At 10 a.m., AG Eric Schneiderman and Rep. Nydia Velazquez are joined by housing advocates unveil a new bill aimed at addressing problems in the Section 8 housing program and preventing harassment of tenants by landlords at other properties, City Hall steps, Manhattan.

«Training is a key aspect to preventing harassment in the workplace,» said Jessica Webb - Ayer, legal editor at XpertHR.

«Employers must have a well - crafted policy with regards to preventing harassment, bullying and violence in the workplace.

While some fear losing the privacy they once enjoyed on internet comment threads, it's becoming more and more common for people to accept the stipulations of publishers or social networks that want to prevent harassment.

Due to be passed in June, the new legislation would amend the Canada Labour Code mandating MPs and other employers on the Hill do «everything in their power» to prevent harassment and violence among staff.

«This new task force is part of a comprehensive agenda — along with fighting for stronger rent laws in Albany — to protect tenants and prevent harassment.

Several weeks ago, a city housing official said the «certificate of no harassment» bill was «overly broad, poorly targeted, after - the - fact approach to preventing harassment,» Politico reported.

Chin's resolution, co-sponsored by Council Speaker Christine Quinn and others, calls on the Department of Defense to examine its cultural diversity policy and do more to prevent harassment of military personnel.

«These half - measures will do little or nothing to prevent the harassment, intimidation, and violence,» says Mark Matfield, executive director of the Research Defense Society, which represents scientists who experiment on animals.

You are matched based on your personality, there's a process for the communication that prevents harassment.

«Tinder Wants To Attract Celebrities Main Dating Sites Are Working Harder To Prevent Harassment»

The forum is, of course, monitored to prevent any harassment or heckling.

About 40 officials from Wasatch Front School Districts will join staff from the Utah State Office of Education this week for a two - day training on how to identify and prevent harassment and bullying in Utah schools.

Appendices offer information on Common Core ELA alignment, cyberbullying, teaching and learning strategies, and peer education as an effective strategy to promote school climate change and prevent harassment.

The book's appendices offer information on Common Core ELA alignment, cyberbullying, teaching and learning strategies, and peer education as an effective strategy to promote school climate change and prevent harassment.

They also understand that it's good business and ethical to manage for diversity and inclusion, to prevent harassment and bullying, to protect privacy and confidentiality, and to promote individual and firm - wide wellness.

There, in addition to the general duty for employers to prevent harassment, OHS legislation expressly involves OHS officers in complaint resolution as an option.

After a six - day jury trial, Whole Foods prevailed with a complete defense verdict in a sex, sexual orientation and racial harassment, failure to prevent harassment and intentional infliction of emotional distress case.

Employers need to understand what they can (and must) do to prevent harassment.

Employers need to keep tabs on social media to prevent harassment or discrimination against employees

This means any detrimental treatment as a result of taking steps to prevent harassment.

«But the time has now come for a greater responsibility and accountability to be placed onto organisations to prevent harassment and discrimination in the first place.

Too often, cases have led to victims taking their own lives, yet courts can only use existing legislation via interpretation to prevent harassment or threatening behaviour online: Defamation Act 2013, Education Act 2011, Communication Act 2003 s127, Protection from Harassment Act 1997, Criminal Justice & Public Order Act 1994 s154 and the Malicious Communications Act 1988.

Acting on behalf of several employers to obtain injunctive relief to prevent the harassment and abuse of their staff by members of the public.

The proposed amendments in Bill 30 will expressly create an obligation not only on employers, but also on supervisors and workers to prevent harassment and violence.

An employer's failure to prevent the harassment of an employee by co-employees is an obvious breach of this duty, and has been held to be capable of amounting to constructive dismissal.

There are three sessions which may be of particular interest to those involved in HR and employment issues: - Proposed reforms to the UK Governance Regime — 24 May - Preventing harassment at work — 7 June - Employment Law in Germany — key issues for multi-national employers — 5 July All sessions run 13.00 - 14.00.

Civil Injunctions under the Protection From Harassment Act 1997 to prevent harassment and / or stalking

In addition, and in general, employers must implement a policy and controls to prevent harassment in the workplace, and to protect workers from workplace harassment that may affect their health and safety.

Employers are required by the Labour Standards Act to take all reasonable steps to prevent harassment of any kind.

Once the relationship ends and a claim for harassment is filed, the contract may show that the employer was taking reasonable means to prevent harassment, but it certainly does not prevent the employee from making the complaint in the first place.

General Tom Lawson, chief of the defence staff, called the findings disturbing and said the armed forces would conduct a comprehensive review of how better to prevent harassment and also help those who have been assaulted.

To prevent harassment, physical violence, even arrest, do a little research and dress for the culture you are visiting.

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