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BHP said on its website it received 417 reports of sexual harassment during the 2024 financial year and had verified 100 incidents, including a sexual assault and 22 instances of unwanted touching ...
The term sexual harassment was popularized following a consciousness-raising session led by Lin Farley as part of a Cornell University program on women in the workplace, [3] and the term entered popular use in 1975. [4] [5] A number of the original sexual harassment cases were pursued on behalf of black women and girls. [6]
Education against harassment As García experienced harassment problems firsthand, she mentioned that it was one of the things that led her to get involved, learn, attend workshops, and seek help.
Jenson v. Eveleth Taconite Co., 130 F.3d 1287 (8th Cir. 1997), [1] was the first class-action sexual harassment lawsuit in the United States.It was filed in 1988 on behalf of Lois Jenson and other female workers at the Eveleth Taconite mine in Eveleth, Minnesota on the state's northern Mesabi Range, which is part of the Iron Range.
Meritor Savings Bank v. Vinson, 477 U.S. 57 (1986), is a US labor law case, where the United States Supreme Court, in a 9–0 decision, recognized sexual harassment as a violation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The case was the first of its kind to reach the Supreme Court and would redefine sexual harassment in the workplace. [1] [2]
The U.S. Federal Reserve Board received 11 complaints against individuals alleging sexual harassment between 2020 and 2023 and disciplined nine staff members as a result, firing four of them ...
An Erie-area pain clinic has settled a federal lawsuit over claims of sexual harassment and sexual discrimination, ending another legal action against the clinic, Tri-State Pain Institute, and its ...
Oncale v. Sundowner Offshore Services, 523 U.S. 75 (1998), is a landmark decision of the US Supreme Court.The case arose out of a suit for sex discrimination by a male oil-rig worker, who claimed that he was repeatedly subjected to sexual harassment by his male co-workers with the acquiescence of his employer.