New Delhi: Sacked iGATE Corp Chief Executive Phaneesh Murthy will be sued for sexually harassing the firm's investor relations head and allegedly making her pregnant, the law firm representing the victim said on Thursday. The California-based law firm, Aiman-Smith & Marcy, said that iGATE's head of investor relations Araceli Roiz was pregnant with Murthy's child.
Murthy told the iGATE board of his relationship with Roiz only after she informed him that she will be taking legal action against him, Roiz's legal firm Aiman-Smith & Marcy said in a statement. iGATE had earlier this week terminated Murthy's contract for not reporting a relationship with Roiz. Murthy, one of the industry's best-known executives, was forced to quit India's second-biggest software services exporter Infosys in 2002, following a sexual harassment lawsuit, which was settled out of court.
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12:59 PM, May 23, 2013
New Delhi: President Pranab Mukherjee has given his assent to a bill under which cases of sexual harassment at workplace, including against domestic help, will have to be disposed of by in-house committees within 90 days failing which a penalty will be imposed. Repeated non-compliance of the provisions of the Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal) law, can lead to higher penalties and even cancellation of...
11:30 PM, Apr 25, 2013
Today is International Women's Day. In spite of being in the middle of a three-day international Shakespeare seminar, when CNN-IBN asked me to do a ...
01:52 PM, Mar 08, 2013
Parliament on Tuesday passed a bill under which cases of sexual harassment at workplace, including against domestic help, will have to be disposed of by in-house committees within a period of 90 days failing which penalty of Rs 50,000 would be imposed. ...
02:46 AM, Feb 27, 2013
Director Sudhir Mishra joined IBNLive readers for an interaction on his movie 'Inkaar'. ...
03:21 PM, Jan 18, 2013
Viacom 18, the production banner behind Arjun Rampal and Chitrangada Singh-starrer 'Inkaar', has commissioned a nationwide research to find out sexual behavior in an office environment. ...
07:07 PM, Dec 31, 2012
New Delhi: Expanding the ambit of its 1997 Vishaka verdict, the Supreme Court on Friday directed all regulatory bodies like BCI and MCI, which regulate different professions, to set up a committee to deal with all cases of sexual harassment at the workplace. A three-judge bench headed by Justice R M Lodha directed regulating bodies and all the institutions affiliated to them to implement the guidelines framed in the Vishaka...
01:55 PM, Oct 19, 2012
Colourful turbans crowded around California Governor Jerry Brown as he signed two historic bills designed to battle workplace discrimination against Sikhs and Muslims in the state. Brown signed the Workplace Religious Freedom Act, Assembly Bill 1964 which ensures that employees receive equal protection under law, protecting workers who wear turbans, hijabs and yarmulkes, the Sacramento Bee newspaper reported. In California, employers faced over 500 cases of religious discrimination in 2011,...
01:58 PM, Sep 10, 2012
New Delhi: Amid din over coal block allocation issue, the Lok Sabha on Monday passed a bill which seeks to protect women, including lakhs employed as domestic workers, from sexual harassment at workplace. The Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal) Bill, 2010, piloted by Women and Child Development Minister Krishna Tirath, was passed without discussion amid uproar with BJP members storming the Well. Under the Act,...
10:16 AM, Sep 04, 2012
New York: Frequent use of curse words at workplace makes employees lose out on their promotions, but more than half of the people still swear in the office, a survey has found. As per a recent survey of more than 3,000 hiring managers and 3,800 workers across the US, as many as 51 per cent of the people swear in the office. The survey also found that 64 per cent...
12:54 PM, Jul 29, 2012
New Delhi: With a number of ministers raising eyebrows over certain provisions, the amendments to the Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal) Bill failed to get the Union Cabinet's nod on Thursday. Sources said the bill has, therefor, been referred to a Group of Ministers headed Home Minister P Chidambaram. HRD Minister Kapil Sibal and Women and Child Development Minister Krishna Tirath are other members of...
09:10 PM, Apr 26, 2012
New York: Having supportive colleagues not only makes the workday easier, it may also help people live longer, according to a new study. Researchers at Tel Aviv University in Israel found that a good relationship with co-workers had an impact on mortality risk for people and was most pronounced between the ages of 38 and 43. "Peer social support, which could represent how well a participant is socially integrated in...
02:26 PM, May 12, 2011
Washington: The mood of employees when they report for work affects how they feel the rest of the day, besides clearly impacting their performance. The results of a study showed that when employees started the day in a good mood, they tended to rate customers more positively through the day and also felt more positive themselves. "We saw that employees could get into these negative spirals where they started the...
04:29 PM, Apr 06, 2011
Seattle: Ever notice how we put forth piety as we snipe? We say things like, "I really don't know whether this is true or not, but..." We proclaim that gossiping is a bad thing to do, even as we proceed to do it anyway. Negative gossip surrounds us. Rumors abound. People seem to thrive on repeating stories that can hurt and harm. With each telling, the truth often becomes embellished...
10:41 AM, Apr 05, 2011
London: People who regularly work long hours may be significantly increasing their risk of developing heart disease, the world's biggest killer, British scientists said on Monday. Researchers said a long-term study showed that working more than 11 hours a day increased the risk of heart disease by 67 percent, compared with working a standard 7 to 8 hours a day. They said the findings suggest that information on working hours...
10:31 AM, Apr 05, 2011
London: Ladies, please note -- if you want to become successful at work, please shun the aggressive attitude, for a new study says that femininity is the best way for a woman to succeed in a man's world. An international team has found that women who take an aggressive approach like many men are often less likely to get ahead than those who exhibit more feminine traits. If however, they...
03:12 PM, Jan 21, 2011
Cut the Noise Keyboards clattering, doors opening and closing and, yes, voices, don't just distract, they actually increase stress levels, studies show. Which can lead to bad moods, lack of concentration and fatigue. Try noise cancelling headphones or speakers (but they work best where noise is regular, like the hum of machinery). To tone down distracting voices, try sound-masking systems that create low-level background noise, like the sound of running...
11:11 AM, Dec 28, 2010
London: High levels of emotional intelligence (EI) foster positive attitudes at private sector workplaces, but not in the public sector, a study says. "The results emphasise the existence of significant behavioral differences between the private and public sectors, says Galit Meisler of the University of Haifa in Israel, who conducted the study. "Executives intending to carry out reforms or implement management plans in the public sector should be well aware...
03:06 PM, Dec 24, 2010
London: If you are unable to get sound sleep at night, blame it on your work related worries. According to a survey, nearly three-quarters of Britons are struggling to get a good night's sleep because of work worries, reports express.co.uk. Around 69 percent people said that work problems make it difficult for them to sleep. The main reason for restless nights was a heavy workload, with half blaming the recession...
11:50 AM, Sep 30, 2010
London: Seems the boss is right! Smokers work an hour a day less than non-smoking colleagues – wasting over a year of their lives on office cigarette breaks, a study has revealed. The study of 2,500 adults by UK-based market research company 'OnePoll.com' found that an average smoker takes four 15-minute breaks daily, amounting to nearly 445 days out of a working life. Moreover, four in five smokers didn't cut...
12:35 PM, Sep 29, 2010
