Bullying and Harassment Increase for Some Workers in Pandemic Lockdown: Opinion June 23, 2020 By Elisa Martinuzzi, Bloomberg Opinion Working from home should have liberated employees from toxic workplace behavior such as bullying and harassment. Amid the lockdowns, gone...
French #MeToo Milestone: Court Orders Dentist to Pay Damages for Sexual Harassment April 24, 2020 By Gaspard Sebag A dentist was ordered by France’s top court to pay damages for sexually abusing a female assistant after the man...
Weinstein Criminal Trial on Rape Charge to Open 2 Years After #MeToo Movement Started January 5, 2020 By Patricia Hurtado and Rebecca Greenfield More than two years and a lifetime ago, Hollywood’s open secrets about Harvey Weinstein finally spilled into public view. Few...
Weinstein Deal Seen as ‘Wake-Up Call’ for Companies But Punishing to Some Victims December 17, 2019 By Larry Neumeister A tentative $25 million settlement revealed last Wednesday to end nearly every sexual misconduct lawsuit brought against Harvey Weinstein and...
Report: Weinstein, Insurers, Accusers Have Reached Tentative $47 Million Settlement December 12, 2019 By Patricia Hurtado and Christopher Palmeri Harvey Weinstein, the disgraced film mogul charged with rape, reached a tentative $47 million settlement with accusers, potentially putting an...
Why ‘Victorian’ HR Policies That Try to Ban Sex Won’t Work-Viewpoint December 10, 2019 By Sarah Green Carmichael Mark Wiseman, who was seen by many as a likely heir to BlackRock Inc. Chief Executive Officer Larry Fink, is...
#MeToo Changed Norms, Not the Law: Viewpoint November 21, 2019 Last week, the Minnesota Supreme Court heard Kenneh v. Homeward Bound, a sexual harassment case that takes aim at the...
Sexual-Harassment Whistleblower Sues Lloyd’s Insurer Tokio Marine Kiln November 13, 2019 By Gavin Finch A senior lawyer who blew the whistle on alleged sexual harassment and bullying at a top Lloyd’s of London insurance...
Poll Shows #MeToo Movement Is Changing Workplace Conversations, Behavior October 28, 2019 By Michelle R. Smith and Hannah Fingerhut Barbara Myers started work as an apprentice electrician in 1995, and over the years she learned to shoot back sexual...
More States Now Mandate Employee Training to Prevent Sexual Harassment October 10, 2019 By Jeff Green Two years into the #MeToo movement, an unprecedented number of American workers are required to receive mandatory sexual harassment training,...