#ElonMusk’s EV company Tesla allowed racial #harassment of its #Black employees to run rampant at its Fremont, CA, plant & retaliated against some workers who complained, the federal agency charged w/ enforcing #CivilRights#laws alleged in a #lawsuit Thurs.
Half a dozen women sued Tesla in 2021, arguing that the company fostered a culture of #SexualHarassment. That same year, a federal court in California ordered #Tesla to pay nearly $137 million in #damages after an employee said they encountered #racist abuse at Tesla’s Fremont site. The Fremont plant faced scrutiny again last year, when the state’s workplace regulator sued Tesla over similar claims of racial #discrimination & #harassment.
Accused of Sexual Harassment, BJP's Brij Bhushan Was in LS When Women’s Reservation Bill Was Passed
During the debate on the women’s reservation Bill, some opposition MPs questioned the BJP government’s commitment to women’s empowerment by highlighting its 'protection' on the outgoing WFI chief.
Brij Bhushan Singh sexually harassed wrestlers at every opportunity: Cops tell court
In the alleged sexual harassment case lodged against former Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) chief and BJP MP Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh, the Delhi police said that Singh never missed an opportunity to sexually harass women wrestlers.
@wrigleyfield@academicchatter You might be interested in the Societies Consortium Ethical Transparency Tool: https://societiesconsortium.com/ett/ : it's a way of passing findings between entities. It's still in pilot mode, but has been through review by lawyers.
On 12 September, at a meeting of the IHC’s Scientific Committee, it was unanimously decided to send a letter to the publisher #Routledge expressing its position on the withdrawal of the chapter “The Walls Spoke When No One Else Would”, from the book "Sexual Misconduct in Academia", edited by Erin Pritchard and Delyth Edwards (2023).
Women’s Cricket Is Rife With Stories of Sexual Harassment. What Is the BCCI Doing?
With the kind of wealth available in Indian cricket and the lack of safeguards, there is no estimating what a more accurate number of cricketers facing harassment by their superiors—coaches, selectors, officials—may be. Women cricketers who have left the game are able to draw a clearer picture, but on condition of revealing neither their names nor the states they represented.
Charges should have been framed, women wrestlers tell court
The counsel representing the wrestlers claimed Brij Bhushan and suspended Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) assistant secretary Vinod Tomar were never exonerated by the ‘oversight committee’.
Dalit teenager in MP beaten to death by men accused by his sister of harassment
According to police, the accused beat the 18-year-old to death with sticks and then damaged portions of his family’s house. The incident took place on Thursday.
CPAC urged to probe more sexual misconduct claims against chair Matt Schlapp A senior board member of CPAC’s parent organization resigned as he urged more scrutiny of Schlapp’s alleged conduct #cpac#mattschlapp#sexualHarassment
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