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By Melanie Burton MELBOURNE (Reuters) – BHP and Rio Tinto (NYSE:) have used confidentiality agreements to prevent female employees from speaking about sexual harassment at work, according to a lawyer leading Australian class action lawsuits against the miners. Brisbane-based law firm JGA Saddler filed a class action against each mining…
By Nate Raymond BOSTON (Reuters) – Harvard University has settled a lawsuit accusing the Ivy League school of ignoring sexual harassment by a professor who three graduate students said had threatened their academic careers if they reported him. In a filing on Wednesday in federal court in Boston, the three…
The chairman of a key US bank regulator said he will resign after an independent investigation found widespread sexual harassment and other issues at the agency, and politicians from both sides criticized his leadership.The independent report from earlier this month found the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation has a “patriarchal,” “misogynistic,”…
By Lananh NguyenNEW YORK (Reuters) – A Citigroup managing director said the bank failed to protect her from a supervisor’s violent threats and abuse because of its “pervasive” culture of sexual harassment and gender discrimination, according to an amended legal filing on Monday. Ardith Lindsey, who worked as Americas head…
