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Home Dictionary Name: pervasivehostile work environment
hostile work environment The basis for a sexual harassment claim, a "hostile work environment" is created where the presence of demeaning or sexual photographs, jokes, threats, or overall atmosphere is so pervasive as to create an intimidating and offensive work environment. ...
sexual harassment
sexual harassment : employment discrimination consisting of unwelcome verbal or physical conduct directed at an employee because of his or her sex ;also : the tort of engaging in such discrimination see also hostile environment sexual harassment, quid pro quo sexual harassment NOTE: Sexual harassment has been found by federal courts to violate the protection in the Civil Rights Act of 1964 against discrimination in employment. There are also state statutes under which sexual harassment actions may be brought. In order to recover against an employer under a sexual harassment suit, the plaintiff has to show that the harassment affected the employment (as by being severe or pervasive) and that the employer is liable under respondeat superior because of actual or constructive knowledge of the harassment. Strict liability is often imposed for harassment of an employee by a supervisor or for quid pro quo sexual harassment. ...
Pervasion
The act of pervading passing or spreading through the whole extent of a thing...
Pervasive
Tending to pervade or having power to spread throughout of a pervading quality...
State
State, Board of control for cricket India is not financially, functionally or administratively dominated by government nor it is under control of government. Government only exercises limited contract which is purely regulatory and not pervasive. Board is therefore not state, Zee Telefilms Ltd. v. Union of India, AIR 2005 SC 2677.In Article 3 of Constitution of India as amended by the fifth Amendment Act 1955. It obviously refers to the States in the First Schedule and the 'Legislature of the State' refers to the Legislature which each State has under the Constitution, Babulal Parate v. State of Bombay, AIR 1960 SC 51: (1960) 1 SCR 605. (Constitution of India, Art. 3)The political system of a body of people who are politically organized; the system of rules by which jurisdiction and authority are exercised over such a body of people, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1415.The expression 'the State' has the same meaning in Part IV of the Constitution under Article 36. No reason was s...
War
War. The sovereign has the sole prerogative of making war or peace.Where war actually prevails, the ordinary courts have no jurisdiction over the action of the military authorities (Ex parte D.F. Marais 1902 AC 115). See ARMY; DECLARATION OF WAR; and consult Owen's Declaration of War; Holland's Law of War on Land; Hall's International Law; Grot. De Jure Pac. et Bel.1. Hostile conflict by means of armed forces, carried on between nations, status or rulers, or sometime between parties, within the same nation or state, a period of such conflict 2. A dispute or competition between adversaries; 3. A straggle to scire a pervasive problem, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1576...
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