Experienced Sexual Harassment in the workplace. V. A. Officials appeared before a House Veterans Affairs subcommittee to explain what is being done to address the issue. This hearing is about an hour and a sexualharassment affects the rights and wellbeings of employees. An estimated 17 of the v. A. s four hundred thousand employees experienced Sexual Harassment in the preceding two years. This exceeds a governmentwide average of 11 and may be the highest rate of sexualharassment across federal workforce. These figures show an unacceptable situation. And the severity and pervasiveness of sexualharassment within v. A. Is not new. I wish i could say the department has done all it can, but despite very high levels of sexualharassment reported in anonymous surveys, 17 to 400,000 employees. They are afraid they will be blamed or socially ostracized. That means employers are not getting the help they need and injustices are not being corrected. Over the last two years, v. A. Has made progress
Hearings on the other events throughout the day. Weekdays at 5 pm and 9 pm eastern, catch washington today. A fast paced report on the stories of the day. Listen to cspan anytime. Just tell your Smart Speaker to play cspan radio. Cspan, powered by cable. According to a report from the Government Accountability office, about 17 with veteran Affairs Department says they have experienced Sexual Harassment on the workplace. Va officials appeared before a subcommittee to address what is being done about the issue. This hearing is about now run af. Todays hearing is titled progress made, an exact role harassment at the department of Veterans Affairs. We will hear from two diversity and inclusion. Miss pretty the johnson Amber Crombie, director of a number of operations for o. M. The eyes operation and thomas costa, other Government Accountability office who is joining us virtually. Sexual harassment is a major problem within the department that affects the wellbeing of va employees. Accordin
Government accountability office, about 17 of employees with the Veterans Affairs department say theyve experienced Sexual Harassment in the workplace. Va officials appeared before a subcommittee to explain what is being done to address the issue. The hearing is about an hour and a half. Todays hearing is titled progress made, anding Sexual Harassment at the department of Veterans Affairs. We will hear from two witnesses. Diversity and inclusion and miss johnsonabercrombie, director of operations as well as mr. Costa, joining us virtually. Sexual harassment is a major problem within the department which affects the wellbeing of va employees. An estimated 17 of va employees experience one form of Sexual Harassment this exceeds the government average of 11 . It might be the highest rate of Sexual Harassment im sure everyone in this room agrees that this is unacceptable. The severity and pervasiveness of Sexual Harassment within va is not new. I wish i could say the department has done al
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