OCEAN CITY — The legal profession has made important strides to combat gender discrimination and sexual harassment in recent years, but there remains work to be done, according to a panel discussion at the Maryland State Bar Association’s Legal Summit and ...

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Energized by the #MeToo movement, two national advocacy groups are teaming up to lodge sexual harassment complaints against McDonald's on behalf of 10 women who have worked at the fast food restaurant in nine cities.

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Most employers do not know they have a legal obligation to ensure their employees are protected from harassment by third parties.

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Baltimore has reached a settlement with a woman who alleged one of her supervisors in the Department of Transportation sexually harassed her and retaliated when she reported him.

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A Columbia waste management company not only failed to stop a male garbage collector’s sexual harassment of his female work partner but kept assigning them to the same truck, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has alleged in a federal lawsuit in which the agency seeks punitive damages.

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Marylanders will get an idea of how many sexual harassment claims are made among the larger employers in the state and have more protections to make sexual harassment claims under a bill passed by the General Assembly this session.

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Sexual harassment, bar application and prison conditions round out roundup.

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Suing mayor, disbarred lawyer, fired cadets round out roundup

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The American Bar Association Commission on Women in the Profession recently entered the #MeToo discussion with “Zero Tolerance,” a manual that aims to eliminate sexual harassment in the legal workplace by 2020.

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Advocates for a bill to prohibit provisions or policies that waive legal remedies of sexual harassment claims in the workplace asked the Senate Finance Committee on Thursday to keep a reporting requirement that was gutted from the House version. “The ...

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