Harassment
Strategies to report and prevent sexual misconduct, so that all employees feel safe at work
By listener request, our hosts discuss the new law restricting ketamine use in Colorado and the Chicago sexual harassment settlement
A county commissioner wants complainants to be able to appeal decisions after an EMS employee’s harassment claim was dismissed
The man was charged with ethnic intimidation and reckless endangering after reportedly yelling racist slurs and following the off-duty EMTs in his truck
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A 25-year veteran of Fayette EMS is suing the agency after she says a veteran supervisor “slapped her on the buttocks” according to the suit
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Female paramedics at the South Western Ambulance Service Foundation Trust claim they were forced to watch porn and give sexual favors
Glenn Halfin was given the maximum punishment based on his guilty plea to the misdemeanor charge of interfering with an African-American family’s rights
A group of students is conducting a survey to shed light on the “things that nobody wants to talk about”
Peterborough Paramedics Chief Randy Mellow said that 66 percent of paramedics surveyed reported some form of abuse while on the job
The 57-page suit alleges the city has failed to deter a long-standing, pervasive culture of sexual harassment throughout the department’s firehouses and facilities
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Our co-hosts discuss a recent article about management harassment to the workforce
Police said Christopher Barlow took inappropriate photos of patients in the back of ambulances and is also suspected of placing a hidden camera in a station bathroom
Staff members said that “for a very long time,” AMR Victorville division employees have undergone rampant physical and verbal abuse by supervisors
Assistant Chief James Hawley was accused of intimidating a person in his office and placing his head on a woman’s buttocks during an exercise drill
Our co-hosts discuss how we can create a safe environment for everyone in the EMS career field
Joshua Weller claims he was retaliated against after standing up for a female colleague, and said his superior abused prescription drugs on duty
A gingerbread house at a holiday party in 2015 had “sexual harassment in progress” etched into its roof, according to the lawsuit
Mary D’Angelo is seeking $3 million and claims she was tormented because she is part Chinese
Jeffrey Dean said he was told to teach his new partner to “keep his mouth shut”
Darrell McIntosh was accused of intimidating a competing EMT as they transported a patient
Donald Hymer Jr. claims he was passed over for promotions and fired after colleagues believed he was gay
Allegations of bullying and harassment surfaced after firefighter-paramedic Nicole Mittendorff died by suicide April 2016
Sean Dornin has been criminally charged with stalking, indecent assault, harassment and disorderly conduct
Edgar Grant was charged with a misdemeanor count of simple assault and a summary count of harassment of another employee
An EMT student told police he had been sexually assaulted and secretly photographed by Barry Barkinsky, a hospital emergency manager and EMT course instructor
The federal lawsuit alleges a culture of harassment and discrimination during and after the EMT, ER tech underwent transition from male to female
The firefighters who assaulted a young woman pursuing her paramedic dream are still at the departments she was dismissed from for reporting the incidents
Coworkers — men and women — bullied and tormented a young paramedic during a difficult period of her life instead of training, mentoring and supporting her
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