HR Depts Swamped with #MeToo, Related Complaints

(from NPR) The global #MeToo movement has generated a deluge of complaints alleging workplace sexual harassment, and HR departments everywhere are ​feeling the pain. "It created this HR level of activity like nothing we've ever seen," said Johnny Taylor, CEO of the Society for Human Resource Management. The sexual harassment complaints have touched off other workplace complaints too, he added, including demands to address issues such as pay equity, bullying and retaliation. Fatima Goss Graves, president and CEO of the National Women's Law Center, believes the outpouring of complaints speakers to many employers' long histories of trying to keep claims private.

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