Employment Law Alliance

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Employment Law Alliance
AbbreviationELA
Headquarters San Francisco, California, United States of America
Region served
6 continents
Membership
More than 3,000 attorneys
CEO
Stephen J. Hirschfeld, Esq
Website employmentlawalliance.com
RemarksFounded in 2000

The Employment Law Alliance(ELA) is an international law firm composed of management-side labor, employment and immigration lawyers, focused on employment law and immigration law related matters. Headquartered in San Francisco, ELA counts more than 3,000 lawyers in more than 100 nations, and all 50 U.S. states among its members. [1] [2]

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Founder

The organization was founded in 2000 by Stephen J. Hirschfeld, Esq., [3] who currently serves as the organization's CEO. Hirschfeld was honored for his contributions to legal marketing with the 2011 Legal Marketing Association - Bay Area Chapter's Rella Lossy award. [4] Hirschfeld was hired by venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers to evaluate gender issues raised by Ellen Pao. He also served as a witness in the Ellen Pao gender discrimination lawsuit. [5]

Polls

The Alliance has conducted periodic surveys on labor and employment issues. In April 2010, the Alliance produced a poll regarding outsourcing. [6] In 2007, the Alliance conducted a poll regarding workplace bullying. [7] In 2005, the Alliance conducted a poll regarding blogging in the workplace. [8] [9] In 2003, the Alliance conducted and published the results of a poll regarding workplace weight issues and accompanying Weight discrimination. [10] The issue of sexual harassment in the workplace was examined in 2002. [11]

Partnership

In February 2011, it was announced [12] [ by whom? ] that the World Bank had partnered with the ELA for the upcoming report and dataset "Women Business and the Law". The report, based on an international survey, details how the laws of each country affect women's abilities to secure employment and start a business. According to the project announcement, topics to be covered include and parental leave, retirement and pensions, flexible work and restrictions on working at night and in specific industries.

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In United States labor law, a hostile work environment exists when one's behavior within a workplace creates an environment that is difficult or uncomfortable for another person to work in, due to illegal discrimination. However, a working environment that is unpleasant and frightening for the victim due to sexual advances that have been denied by the victim, is what constitutes hostile work environment sexual harassment. Common complaints in sexual harassment lawsuits include fondling, suggestive remarks, sexually-suggestive photos displayed in the workplace, use of sexual language, or off-color jokes. Small matters, annoyances, and isolated incidents are usually not considered to be statutory violations of the discrimination laws. For a violation to impose liability, the conduct must create a work environment that would be intimidating, hostile, or offensive to a reasonable person. An employer can be held liable for failing to prevent these workplace conditions, unless it can prove that it attempted to prevent the harassment and that the employee failed to take advantage of existing harassment counter-measures or tools provided by the employer.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Sexual harassment</span> Unwanted sexual attention or advances

Sexual harassment is a type of harassment involving the use of explicit or implicit sexual overtones, including the unwelcome and inappropriate promises of rewards in exchange for sexual favors. Sexual harassment can be physical and/or verbal. Sexual harassment includes a range of actions from verbal transgressions to sexual abuse or assault. Harassment can occur in many different social settings such as the workplace, the home, school, or religious institutions. Harassers or victims can be of any gender.

Kleiner Perkins, formerly Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers (KPCB), is an American venture capital firm which specializes in investing in incubation, early stage and growth companies. Since its founding in 1972, the firm has backed entrepreneurs in over 900 ventures, including America Online, Amazon.com, Tandem Computers, Compaq, Electronic Arts, JD.com, Square, Genentech, Google, Netscape, Sun Microsystems, Nest, Palo Alto Networks, Synack, Snap, AppDynamics, and Twitter. By 2019 it had raised around $9 billion in 19 venture capital funds and four growth funds.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">John Doerr</span> American businessman

L. John Doerr is an American investor and venture capitalist at Kleiner Perkins in Menlo Park, California. In February 2009, Doerr was appointed a member of the President's Economic Recovery Advisory Board to provide the President and his administration with advice and counsel in trying to fix America's economic downturn. In 2017, related to Forbes, he was recognized the 40th Richest in Tech. Forbes ranked Doerr as the 196th richest person in the world, with a net worth of US$ 9.8 billion as of April 12, 2023. Doerr is the author of Measure What Matters, a book about goal-setting, and Speed & Scale: An Action Plan for Solving Our Climate Crisis Now.

Lynne C. Hermle is an attorney specializing in employment law. She is a partner at Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP's Menlo Park, California office. She also serves on the firm's management committee, the "first partner from the firm's Silicon Valley office to serve, and the second woman ever chosen".

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Freada Kapor Klein</span> Venture capitalist, social policy researcher and philanthropist

Freada Kapor Klein is an American venture capitalist, social policy researcher and philanthropist. As a partner at Kapor Capital and the Kapor Center for Social Impact, she is known for efforts to diversify the technology workforce through activism and investments. Her 2007 book Giving Notice: Why the Best and the Brightest Leave the Workplace and How You Can Help Them Stay examines the reasons people have for leaving corporate America as well as the human and financial cost.

Workplace bullying is a persistent pattern of mistreatment from others in the workplace that causes either physical or emotional harm. It can include such tactics as verbal, nonverbal, psychological, and physical abuse, as well as humiliation. This type of workplace aggression is particularly difficult because, unlike the typical school bully, workplace bullies often operate within the established rules and policies of their organization and their society. In the majority of cases, bullying in the workplace is reported as having been done by someone who has authority over the victim. However, bullies can also be peers, and subordinates. When subordinates participate in bullying this phenomenon is known as upwards bullying .The least visible segment of workplace bullying involves upwards bullying where bully- ing tactics are manipulated and applied against “the boss,” usually for strategically designed outcomes.

Harassment covers a wide range of behaviors of offensive nature. It is commonly understood as behavior that demeans, humiliates, and intimidates a person, and it is characteristically identified by its unlikelihood in terms of social and moral reasonableness. In the legal sense, these are behaviors that appear to be disturbing, upsetting or threatening. Traditional forms evolve from discriminatory grounds, and have an effect of nullifying a person's rights or impairing a person from benefiting from their rights. When these behaviors become repetitive, it is defined as bullying. The continuity or repetitiveness and the aspect of distressing, alarming or threatening may distinguish it from insult.

Gary Namie is a social psychologist and anti-workplace bullying activist. He is the co-founder and director of the Workplace Bullying Institute, and is widely regarded as North America's foremost authority on the topic of workplace bullying.

Workplace harassment is the belittling or threatening behavior directed at an individual worker or a group of workers.

The nursing organization workplace has been identified as one in which workplace bullying occurs quite frequently. It is thought that relational aggression are relevant. Relational aggression has been studied amongst girls but rarely amongst adult women. According to a finding, 74% of the nurses, 100% of the anesthetists, and 80% of surgical technologists have experienced or witnessed uncivil behaviors like bullying by nursing faculty. There have been many incidents that have occurred throughout the past couple of years. OSHA, which stands for "Occupational Safety and Health Administration" stated that from 2011 to 2013, the United States healthcare workers experienced 15,000 to 20,000 significant injuries while in the workplace.

Bullying in the legal profession is believed to be more common than in some other professions. It is believed that its adversarial, hierarchical tradition contributes towards this. Women, trainees and solicitors who have been qualified for five years or less are more impacted, as are ethnic minority lawyers and lesbian, gay and bisexual lawyers.

A “toxic workplace” is a colloquial metaphor used to describe a place of work, usually an office environment, that is marked by significant personal conflicts between those who work there. A toxic work environment has a negative impact on an organization's productivity and viability. This type of environment can be detrimental to both the effectiveness of the workplace and the well-being of its employees.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Ellen Pao</span> American businesswoman (born 1970)

Ellen Kangru Pao is an American investor and former interim CEO of social media company Reddit.

The law for workplace bullying is given below for each country in detail. Further European countries with concrete antibullying legislation are Belgium, France, and The Netherlands.

Hong v. Facebook Inc., Anil Wilson, et al. was a gender discrimination and race discrimination lawsuit filed in 2015 by Chia Hong against her former employer, Facebook, her supervisor, and 50 others. The lawsuit was filed in San Mateo County Superior Court by attorneys Lawless & Lawless.

Ellen Pao v. Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers LLC and DOES 1-20 is a lawsuit filed in 2012 in San Francisco County Superior Court under the law of California by executive Ellen Pao for gender discrimination against her employer, the venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins. Overlapping with a number of studies condemning the representation of women in venture capital, the case was followed closely by reporters, advocacy groups and Silicon Valley executives. Given the tendency for similar cases to reach settlements out of court, coverage of Pao v. Kleiner Perkins described it as a landmark trial once it began in February 2015. On March 27, 2015 the jury found in favor of Kleiner Perkins on all counts.

Women in venture capital or VC are investors who provide venture capital funding to startups. Women make up a small fraction of the venture capital private equity workforce. A widely used source for tracking the number of women in venture capital is the Midas List which has been published by Forbes since 2001. Research from Women in VC, a global community of women venture investors, shows that the percentage of female VC partners is just shy of 5 percent.

Civility may denote orderly behavior and politeness. Historically, civility also meant training in the humanities.

The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) is Canada's national police force established in 1920 after the Cabinet moved to have the Royal North-West Mounted Police absorb the Dominion Police. The RCMP's primary mandate is to maintain "peace and order," and Officers provide police services to all Canadian provinces, excluding Québec and Ontario, as well as to the three Canadian territories, and more than 180 municipalities and Indigenous communities.

References

  1. "About Us". Employment Law Alliance. Retrieved 15 June 2011.
  2. "Member Directory". Employment Law Alliance. Retrieved 15 June 2011.
  3. "Stephen J. Hirschfeld - Our Attorneys - Hirschfeld Curiale Kraemer". Curiale Hirschfeld Kraemer LLP. Archived from the original on 25 July 2011. Retrieved 15 June 2011.
  4. "Hires and promotions, 30 May". San Francisco Chronicle . 30 May 2011. Retrieved 15 June 2011.
  5. "A Who's Who of the Kleiner Perkins-Ellen Pao Trial". 23 March 2015.
  6. Schoeff, Mark Jr. (8 September 2008). "The Workplace Agenda: Campaigns Overlook HR Issues". Workforce Management . Archived from the original on 21 July 2011. Retrieved 15 June 2011.
  7. "Confronting Workplace Bullying Training for Supervisors". Society for Human Resource Management. Retrieved 15 June 2011.
  8. Joyce, Amy (19 February 2006). "Blogged Out of a Job". The Washington Post . Retrieved 15 June 2011.
  9. Leblang, Kevin B. (15 February 2006). "Protecting Employers Against Bloggers". Forbes . Retrieved 15 June 2011.
  10. Murphy, Dale (8 November 2003). "Weighty problem at work". San Francisco Chronicle . Retrieved 16 June 2011.
  11. Marino, Vivian (10 February 2002). "PERSONAL BUSINESS: DIARY; Sexual Harassment: Are Curbs Working?". The New York Times . Retrieved 16 June 2011.
  12. "Employment Law Alliance to Serve as Global Partner to the World Bank". Jaffe Legal News Services. Archived from the original on 5 October 2011. Retrieved 15 June 2011.