Word: workers
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Worse yet, when women do arrive, it seems Harvard is not treating them as fairly as it should be. In a suit filed by former Facilities and Maintenance worker Charlotte Walters, a jury found Harvard guilty of sexual discrimination on one count when it failed to discipline a worker who harassed Walters. On the faculty level, women shoulder a larger portion of the undesirable administrative burden than do their male counterparts--holding 31 percent of the head tutor jobs, although they comprise only 14 percent of the faculty eligible for these posts...
...many employees of the University disagree. They believe that Harvard is more concerned with meeting the bare minimum of OSHA regulations than with answering worker complaints. While EHS has a good reputation among staff members, employees contend that Harvard's budget priorities keep EHS from doing its job as effectively as it should. Furthermore, employees say that many supervisors in the University laboratories take a "cavalier" attitude towards worker safety...
Although many supervisors show genuine concernfor worker safety, "there are other people whohave a very cavalier attitude that `you know whatyou're getting into,' " Rondeau says...
...When a worker is injured on the job or exposedto radiation or other hazards, Harvard has aresponsibility to pay damages...
...Students do not work for us on projects that require Secret Service clearance, such as when President Aquino came to speak," Rogers says. "The FAS faculty meetings are taped by an officer of the University, and a professional, full-time worker who has been with the department for the last 17 years records the Board [of Overseers] meetings...