By Steve Kardell | Published July 19, 2018 | Posted in Whistleblower Litigation | Tagged Tags: discrimination in the workplace, harassment, whistleblower |
As the combined forces of the #TimesUp and #MeToo movements have continued to gain momentum throughout 2018, more people than ever are having frank conversations about incidents of harassment in the workplace. Employers across all industries must face the fact that sexual harassment is a far more pervasive problem than some realized — or were Read More
Read MoreIn December, Facebook publicly released its internal company policy on harassment in the hopes that other companies would be able to learn from them. The idea, according to two executives of the corporation, is that if “more companies are open about their policies,” more will be able to learn from each other. In Facebook’s policy, Read More
Read MoreCable news network Fox News has found itself in a great deal of legal hot water lately, including sexual harassment allegations levied against several of its most notable executives and on-air personalities. The latest legal challenge to arise came in May in the form of a discrimination lawsuit filed by anchor Diana Falzone. Falzone accuses Read More
Read MoreReya C. Boyer-Liberto, a cocktail waitress, recently filed a lawsuit against the Maryland hotel she worked at, claiming she was fired after complaining about people using racial slurs against her. The defendant, the Fontainebleau Corporation, originally won the case by summary judgment, but the Fourth Circuit Court reviewed the case and found that should instead Read More
Read MoreThe state Department of Health and Human Services in Maine will pay $142,500 to a former employee as a part of a settlement for a federal whistleblower suit. That employee is Sharon Leahy-Lind, who was at one time a division director under the employment of the Maine Center for Disease Control. She filed a lawsuit Read More
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