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Survivors of workplace sexual harassment could be able to speak out under legislation reintroduced by New York Senator Kirsten Gillibrand.
The bipartisan bill would void forced arbitration provisions that have allowed companies to keep serious crimes out of the public eye.
Gillibrand said the time to act is now.
“Survivors deserve a real chance at justice. Our legislation, the Ending Forced Arbitration Sexual Assault and Sexual Harassment Act would provide that,” Gillibrand said.
American journalist Gretchen Carlson joined Gillibrand to call on Congress to pass the bill. Carlson resigned from Fox News in 2016 after filing a sexual harassment lawsuit against then Fox News Chairman Roger Ailes.
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Biden Allies Outraged At Plan To Re-Open Migrant Child Center Dogged by Abuse Allegations
On 2/25/21 at 4:11 PM EST
A steady increase in unaccompanied minors coming to the border has led the Biden administration to reopen a Trump-era facility in Texas that had been closed, but additional plans to also reopen the much-maligned Homestead facility in Florida have led to growing public backlash among Democrats and activists who say they will fight to ensure it never opens again.
The Carrizo Springs Influx Care Facility in Texas, which was closed in 2019 after a surge of unaccompanied minors abated, is run by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), not the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), which has faced criticism for how it runs its centers. The government says the facilities are needed because COVID restrictions have cut the number of people facilities can hold in half and the HHS Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR), which runs the facility, says it is quarantining