Harassment

The Joanna Gualtieri Case

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Joanna Gualtieri

Joanna Gualtieri ’s 18-year ordeal has all the hallmarks of abuse of office and abuse of institutional power: from the waste of public funds that she discovered in the course of her work at Foreign Affairs, to the years of harassment that she endured at the hands of her bosses when she spoke out about this, and then the endless and costly delay tactics employed by government lawyers in the lawsuit she brought against those responsible.

Workplace Harassment and Bullying

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When whistleblowers find themselves in conflict with their bosses, they may be subjected to many different forms of reprisal.

Occasionally they may be fired abruptly without explanation, but in countries that have labour laws this is rare: the employer is likely to use more subtle methods, making it difficult to fight back or even to prove that reprisals have taken place.

RCMP probing whistleblower's harassment claims

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None of Cpl. Catherine Galliford's allegations have been proven so far, RCMP says

CBC News – May 10, 2012

The RCMP says it is investigating claims in a lawsuit launched Wednesday in which Cpl. Catherine Galliford alleges sexual assault and sexual harassment within the force, but investigators have not yet been able to substantiate any of her claims.

Galliford, currently on sick leave, filed a detailed claim, saying she was suffering from severe post traumatic stress disorder due to years of sexual harassment and a number of physical assaults by other RCMP supervisors and colleagues.

Mental health injuries

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Many whistleblowers experience harassment and other reprisals that threaten their careers and their livelihood. The stresses that these assaults cause are intolerable and often lead to permanent, debilitating psychological injuries, with symptoms similar to post traumatic stress disorder: chronic depression, insomnia, nightmares and flashbacks, and panic attacks. Some whistleblowers are so devasted by their experience that they resort to suicide.

Former public servant takes alleged harassment case to Supreme Court

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Zabia Chamberlain

Jessica Bruno – April 30, 2012

Former federal public servant Zabia Chamberlain, who alleges she was harassed by her boss at Human Resources and Skills Development Canada in 2007-2008 and has been unsuccessfully fighting for years to get restitution from the government, is now taking her fight for financial security and closure to the Supreme Court.

Ms. Chamberlain currently suffers from severe post-traumatic stress disorder and has for years been unable to function as a result of the nine months she alleges her boss harassed her when she worked as an executive in HRSDC from September 2007 to June 2008.

Embattled head of human rights tribunal steps aside

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Shirish Chotalia

Chris Cobb – April 23, 2012

The embattled head of the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal has stepped aside in the aftermath of a scathing Federal Court decision that criticized her management of a landmark case involving the welfare of native children.

The Citizen has learned that tribunal chairwoman Shirish Chotalia wrote a brief email to staff on Friday saying she was departing on stress leave. “I am taking stress leave until June 17, 2012. Thank you for your continued support,” she wrote.

NRC should do the right thing

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Krishan D. Uppal – April 16, 2012

Hats off to the Citizen for its role in getting Commissionaire Dan Brown his job back at the National Research Council within days after The Public Citizen recounted his story. Brown summed up his reinstatement as follows: "It was NRC's call, and finally, they came to their senses, I guess."

Contrast this with the racial discrimination case of Dr. Chander Grover. A human rights tribunal found that the NRC pursued a plan to "humiliate Dr. Grover and to bring to end his career at NRC." The NRC flouted the tribunal's edict and spent untold millions of dollars of taxpayers' money to eventually chase him out of his job.

Quarter-century-long human rights battle continues

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Dr. Chander Grover

Andrew Duffy – April 13, 2012

Former National Research Council physicist Chander Grover will be returning to court later this year after the federal government rejected his bid to end 25 years of human rights litigation.

Grover, 69, who recently underwent cancer treatments, has made repeated overtures to federal lawyers in an attempt to close one outstanding lawsuit. But the two sides have been unable to come to an agreement about how to end the epic legal battle, which is scheduled to resume in July.

World Bank leadership candidate criticized

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Jim Yong Kim Weak on Whistleblower Protections at Dartmouth

Bea Edwards –April 13, 2012

As president of Dartmouth University, President Obama’s nominee to head the World Bank, Jim Yong Kim, presides over extreme, traumatizing, pervasive, revolting and potentially illegal hazing at fraternities. Andrew Lohse, the whistleblower who exposed it, is now, alone, among those charged with misconduct, on the brink of expulsion.

Janet Reitman of Rolling Stone investigated Dartmouth’s infamous fraternity system and described the violence, class privilege and ritual abuse that fraternity pledges must survive in order to join the clubs. On this site, we don’t quite have the stomach to detail the particulars of hazing at Dartmouth, but suffice it to say that the customs mainly involve forcing the younger boys to wallow repeatedly in the bodily emissions of the older ones. Extreme binge drinking is, of course, part of the fun, as well as, inevitably, gang vomiting.

Whistleblower says bank harassing 'The Living Hell' out of her

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Lynn Szymoniak

Alexander Eichler – March 29, 2012

Lynn Szymoniak may have just won $18 million for uncovering massive, systemic foreclosure fraud. But that doesn't mean her troubles are over.

Szymoniak, a white-collar attorney who became famous last year as the whistleblower in a far-reaching foreclosure fraud case, is still enmeshed in conflict with Deutsche Bank, which foreclosed on Szymoniak's Florida home in 2008.

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