Can Smart Phone Safety Apps Curb Or Wipeout Sexual Harassment Or Assault On Women At Workplace ??

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Can Smart Phone Safety Apps 

Curb Or Wipeout 

Sexual Harassment Or Assault 

On

Women At Workplace ??

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The MeToo movement is about giving sexual assault and harassment victims the courage to speak up. And the recent conviction of former movie mogul Harvey Weinstein is an indication that those who speak up will be believed. But, despite these encouraging trends, many still choose to remain silent when it comes to reporting issues like sexual harassment. New apps aimed at empowering victims are hoping to change that.

In order for real change to occur, organizations need to be aware of misconduct when it occurs in their workplaces. If sexual harassment is not reported, a perpetrator can continue to harass for years without any repercussions. Until Gretchen Carlson brought charges, Roger Ailes allegedly harassed over twenty women at Fox News. But the reason these women didn’t report sooner is that it’s not easy to come forward. One large-scale study found that only about 6% of sexually harassed workers take any formal action and report the incident, and less than 1% of victims file formal charges.

Why the reluctance to report? 

When assessing the costs and benefits of reporting, many conclude it’s just more advantageous to remain silent. Some victims fear it will reflect poorly on themselves or that they will suffer retaliation or professional consequences. Others feel they will not be believed or that the incidents are not serious enough to report. Some express concern that their organization will ignore their complaints. Until management makes it clear to employees that the company will act appropriately when they become aware of a violation, employees will continue to favor silence. Silence is just the best option.

New apps are aiming to give employees better alternatives. Hoping to empower more employees to report problems, these apps, including #NotMe and Vault Platform, are making it easier for employees to report these issues to their organization. Ariel Weindling, founder and CEO of #NotMe, describes, “The app brings the power back to the people who have experienced or perceived misconduct and are ready to stand up and say #NotMe.”

Anonymity Increases The Likelihood Of Reports

Another explanation for the uptick in reports for these organizations is that app users can submit their reports anonymously. Anonymous reporters need not fear repercussions, because nobody knows the identity of the person who reported the harassment. While some organizations have offered anonymous reporting hotlines for years, the apps offer one key benefit over hotlines. The organization can conduct follow-up, ask questions and offer help via the app—all while preserving the anonymity of the individual reporting the harassment. About 50% of the reports submitted to date on #NotMe have been anonymous.

Not everyone is a fan of anonymous reporting. Researchers James Detert and Ethan Burris suggest that encouraging employees to speak up anonymously about any topic may inadvertently reinforce a message that it’s not safe to speak up. They say, “Allowing employees to remain unidentified actually underscores the risks of speaking up—and reinforces people’s fears. The subtext is, ‘It’s not safe to share your views openly in this organization. So we’ve created other channels to get the information we need.’”

However, #NotMe CEO, Weindling feels that the app can function to re-establish trust between the employee and employer, and ultimately empowers victims to identify themselves. In either case, anonymous or identified, Weindling feels that reporting is always the best option.  Reports allow the organization to be alerted to issues when they arise, which allows them to intervene and course-correct before problems get out of hand.  

Vault Platform CEO, Meidav agrees that anonymity is not ideal, but is still necessary. “The Vault Platform was created to help companies create an environment where people feel safe to speak up and even identify themselves. We recognize that there is still work to do for most cultures to get to that point, so anonymity is still important,” she reports.

In addition to the anonymous reporting option, users of the Vault Platform app have another compelling alternative. The GoTogether feature enables employees to submit their reports under the condition that they’re not the first or only person complaining about a particular perpetrator. Meidav says, “What we learned from the #MeToo movement, even in its very name, is that strength in numbers matters. Our GoTogether feature has already been used in the companies that implemented Vault, and according to our own research, women are up to eight times more likely to report with GoTogether than anonymously.” Vault estimates that only 30% of their reports are anonymous.

The apps contain several other features that benefit both victims and organizations. For example, employees can use the apps to keep a record of harassing behavior without reporting. This record-keeping may help employees who think that one particular incident isn’t egregious enough to report but want to document an incident in case the misconduct continues to occur.

NotMe allows users to report harassment regardless of whether their employer has adopted the #NotMe platform.  

NotMe users will hear from an expert who can assess their needs and offer referrals and advice within 48 hours.  

Awareness Is The First Step To Eliminating Harassment 

In general, organizations are better off when their employees feel that they are free to voice their concerns. Several studies show that organizations that encourage employees to speak up have increased retention and stronger performance.  But it’s not always easy, and in the short term, it’s sometimes less complicated for an organization to remain in the dark. Weindling says organizational representatives have directly told him, “your platform is really fantastic, but I’d rather not know about misconduct.”

Awareness of misconduct creates more work, but lack of awareness causes even greater organizational problems that will take much longer to address. To eradicate sexual misconduct from the workplace, organizations need to step up and address the problems head-on. Awareness of the issues is the critical first step, and any tools organizations can use to encourage employees to speak up are helpful.

Perhaps most empowering for victims is the message sent by organizations that adopt these platforms. These organizations are clearly indicating that they want to hear about any misconduct and will take reports seriously. And this message seems to be getting through to employees. Vault Platform CEO, Neta Meidav, reports that their clients have seen a 40% uptick in reports after adopting the platform.

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Know If Your Voice Is Alluring or Unattractive And Ways To Make It Attractive

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Know If Your Voice

Is alluring or unattractive

And 

Ways To Make It Attractive

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"HIS VOICE TOUCHES PLACES INSIDE ME like someone moving through a house,flicking light switches. And even if it was dark,I'd still be able to understand him,because his voice nestles against my soul",- Geraldine McCaughrean,Reading this quote one can easily link the chord of appeal the voice entails on our soul. Yes,voice allures!

When the phone rings, even though may not know the person at the other end of the line, as soon as they speak you usually know whether you are, talking to a honey-drenched voice,or deep,low-pitched ones. Some voices are so fascinating that you want to hear them again and again. Voice is integral part of a person's sex appeal.

Dr Rajan Bhonsle Honorary Professor and Head of Department Sexual Medicine at K.E.M. Hospital jots down the facts on how voice colours and conjours up the image of who we are talking to. Also know how does voice work as aphrodisiac for your sex life.

VOICE QUALITY AND SEXUALITY

Male voice and sex appeal

Researchers with Harvard, McMaster and Florida State Universities examined the correlation between voice pitch and child-bearing success, and found that deeper voice pitch predicted reproductive success in males. Another study, published in the journal Biology Letters, acclaims that a deeper vocal pitch, indicates a higher level of testosterone. Since there is an established relationship between testosterone and deep vocal pitch, this is the reason women find find deep male voices more attractive and get involved even with some ugly- as-toads men with great voices more easily.

"Men with more masculine voices are those involved in more sexual desires however, a softer male voice signals a more caring man, more likely to invest in a long term relationship."

Female voice and sex appeal

It's harder to determine what makes a woman's voice appealing to men. Some studies show that men prefer high-pitched female voices, but there haven't been many experiments so far..There are those who prefer sweet, high-pitched female voices and others who prefer lower,fuller voices. Psychologists have found that breathiness is one quality in female voices that adds to its sex appeal. Breathiness comes from air whistling through a gap at the end of the vocal cords. The gap is larger in woman, thus the breathier voice.Psychologists believe that men might find a very breathy voice sexy. However, bright, generous voices, low vocal pitch and a small range of pitch,also increase interpersonal attraction claims a Japanese study.

VOICE AND PHYSICAL ATTRACTIVENESS

A good,firm voice not only indicates a person's good health but also reveals their sexual potential. A research confirms that there is a link between voice, body configuration, and sexual behaviour as voice influences hormones and bring attractiveness, promoting to sexual opportunity, A study at Florida notes that men with good voices have more sexual partners, lose their virginity at a younger age and have broader shouldsers and narrower hips, while women with attractive voices have narrower waists and broader hips and also attract more sexual partners.

STEPS TO OBTAIN AN ATTRACTIVE VOICE

Always breathe out when you speak 

dont hold your breath.

Use the natural deep tones 

of your voice as much as possible.

Speak at a normal pace

Talking fast will clutter your words,and talking too slowly can be boring.

Work on your pitch

To find deeper sexually attractive.To get it to a lower,richer pitch,relax your neck, sholuders and jaws consciously.

Breathe right to alluring voice. 

Renee Grant-Williams, author of "Voice Power",advises people to breathe from the lower body. Hold your fist right below the navel and isolate and flex only those lower abdominal muscles where the fist is. Squeeze out a little puff of air from below the waist. To let air back in, let the lower ab muscles relax while loosening the jaw and opening the throat so air can flow in. She claims that with practice,this can give an irrestible voice.

Remember,sexiness of voice do not from great clothes or an expensive lifestyle but from self confidence a great attitude, a sense of humour and how keen one is to make their presence felt by using their voice. So go confident to speak your heart out.    
    
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Know If You Can Lose Your Job If You Are Quarantined During The Coronavirus Outbreak?

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Know If You Can Lose 

Your Job

If You Are Quarantined 

During The 

Coronavirus Outbreak?

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The Wuhan Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) outbreak continues to spread with an ever-increasing number of deaths and infected individuals. With the ease in which it spreads, authorities have imposed quarantines, such as on a cruise ship. But what happens if you have to miss work as a result of quarantine?

Quarantines: An Overview

The word “quarantine” comes from the Italian word for 40 days. The term can trace its roots back to Venice during the Black Death plague epidemic. During that time, authorities placed incoming ships in isolation for 40 days before its crew and passengers could join the general population.

Another term often used with quarantine is “isolation.” They are similar concepts, but different. Quarantine refers to the confinement of individuals who have been exposed (or may have been exposed) to a particular disease or illness. A person may be quarantined even though they do not have a communicable disease. Isolation refers to the separation of known sick individuals from those who are not sick. In other words, isolation applies when you are sick and quarantine applies you could be sick.

The Legal Basis For Quarantine And Isolation Powers

In the United States, the power to isolate and quarantine exists at both the federal and state level. Practically all states have laws in place that allow state and local health officials to enforce quarantine or impose isolation to prevent the spread of a communicable disease.

At the federal level, Section 361 of the Public Health Services Act, provides authority to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to detain, examine and monitor individuals traveling into and within the United States who may have a communicable disease.

Officials from the CDC often work with state and local authorities to establish quarantine. Depending on the disease and the individuals involved, quarantines can last hours or weeks. For some, this may be a minor inconvenience. But for many others, this could affect not just their daily living, but their livelihood as well.

Federal Employment Protections When Under Isolation Or Quarantine

If you’re placed under quarantine or in isolation for an extended period, you may wonder if you’ll still have a job when you’re finally released. There are two primary federal laws that can address this situation: the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993 (FMLA) and the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA).

The FMLA provides eligible employees with up to 12 weeks of unpaid, protected leave for qualified medical reasons. This includes taking care of your own “serious health condition.” The key question here is whether someone under isolation or quarantine has a serious health condition.

If you’re in isolation for the Coronavirus, you likely have a serious health condition. Therefore, you’re probably receiving inpatient care and ongoing medical treatment.

For someone in quarantine, things aren’t as clear. This is because quarantines apply to people who may not have any disease at all, but have restrictions placed on them for precautionary reasons.

At first glance, it appears that being in quarantine won’t qualify for FMLA leave. But after digging a little deeper, you can make the argument that being under quarantine counts as a serious health condition.

The FMLA regulations’ definition of a serious health condition includes a condition that requires inpatient care. Inpatient care is generally defined as spending at least an overnight stay in a medical facility, such as a hospital, hospice or residential medical facility.

If someone is under quarantine and they receive medical testing and monitoring that spans more than one day, it’s possible to argue that this qualifies as inpatient care. This may be true even if the monitoring, testing or observation is done on a cruise ship or in someone’s own home.

In most situations, if you are in isolation or quarantine and have FMLA leave available, you’ll likely be able to take it.

Concerning the ADA, it prohibits discrimination by covered employers against a qualified person with a disability. The ADA also requires certain employers to provide reasonable accommodations to disabled employees.

The question with the ADA is if being infected with the Coronavirus, or being suspected of being infected, qualifies as an ADA recognized disability.

To be considered an ADA disability, a person must have an impairment that substantially limits one or more major life activities or have a record of such an impairment. ADA protections can also apply to those who are regarded as having such an impairment. A major life activity includes things such as walking, sitting, reading, breathing and talking.

If you’re infected with the Coronavirus and are in isolation, you may qualify as having an ADA-recognized disability. The most single most important factor would be how serious your symptoms were. The more severe your symptoms, the more likely your Coronavirus infection counts as a disability under the ADA. If your Coronavirus infection qualifies as an ADA disability, your employer cannot fire you simply because you’re infected.

However, they can fire you if being in isolation prevents you from being able to do your job. For example, if your job requires you to physically be in the office, then being in isolation (and your severe symptoms) would prevent you from being able to accomplish your job duties.

But there’s the caveat of whether your employer can provide you with a reasonable accommodation. Assuming a reasonable accommodation can be made that doesn’t impose an undue hardship on your employer, then you probably can’t be fired because you are in isolation.

Depending on the circumstances, a leave of absence could qualify as a reasonable accommodation. And should you make a full recovery and wish to come back to your job, your employer can require you to provide a doctor’s note clearing you to return to work.

If you’re under quarantine, then you are not ill. Therefore, you do not have a disability. However, you are regarded as being disabled. As a result, you may have ADA protections with respect to employment discrimination. However, there is disagreement as to whether being “regarded as” having a disability legally requires an employer to provide reasonable accommodations (assuming it doesn’t result in undue hardship on the employer).

So it’s possible that even if your job duties would allow for it and it doesn’t create an undue burden, your employer may not have to provide you with leave or allow you to telecommute while you are under quarantine. But again, the law isn’t perfectly clear on this.

State And Local Employment Laws When Under Isolation Or Quarantine

Most states that have quarantine and isolation laws do not address whether an employer can fire an employee while under quarantine or in isolation. However, a few states do explicitly prohibit it.

For example, under Md. Ann. § Code 18-906(e), an employer may not fire an employee who is under isolation or quarantine as ordered by the Maryland government. A few other states have similar protections, such as Maine, New Jersey, New Mexico, South Carolina and Texas.

Another way for an employee to protect his or her job during a quarantine or isolation order is to have additional protected leave from work. While the FMLA provides up to 12 weeks of leave, some state or local laws provide more time, such as Washington, D.C.

Specifically, the District of Columbia Family and Medical Leave Act (DCFMLA) provides up to 16 weeks of medical leave for employees who need to deal with a serious health condition. Besides the extra four weeks of leave, another advantage of the DCFMLA over the FMLA is that it applies to more employees. The FMLA applies to employers with 50 or more employees while the DCFMLA applies to employers with only 20 or more employees.

Outbreaks And Telecommuting

One substantial difference between the Coronavirus and previous global outbreak threats is modern capacity for remote, online work. The utility of telecommuting positions has changed the question of whether one can perform the essential job functions of their position from home.

At the Spiggle Law Firm, for example, we commonly use programs like Slack, Zoom, PracticePanther, Dropbox, and of course email to successfully do work remotely which would have once been impossible. The more telework positions there are, the lower the risk of contracting diseases from coworkers.

In Closing

Hopefully, much of this above discussion is purely academic. But if the Coronavirus continues to spread, this might be something more and more employees and human resource departments will have to worry about.

One thing to keep in mind is that many people will have accrued personal, vacation or sick days they may be able to use in place of taking FMLA leave or asking for reasonable accommodations.

Then there’s also the fact that even if a business could fire you because you were in isolation or quarantine, it could create some negative publicity that your employer would be prudent to avoid.

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Know How And Why Bananas Melt Belly Fat By These Surprising Ways

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Know How And Why Bananas

Melt Belly Fat 

By These Surprising Ways

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How to use bananas to melt stomach fat?

Banana is one fruit that is available in all the seasons and is extremely nutritious because of presence of fibre, mineral and potassium in it. Its taste and ‘easy-to-eat’ quality makes it everyone’s favourite. It also helps in flushing out toxins from the body and enhances metabolism too. But did you know that as a result of these qualities, banana helps you with melting stomach fat also. Yes! Banana is one of those very few fruits which have a tendency to melt the stomach fat. Let’s see how and why?

Fruit

Banana is an excellent source of energy because it has glucose, fructose and sucrose in it. Consumption of banana decreases the feeling of hunger. So, when we take banana, we will not be hungry for a long time which will also help in lessening the stomach fat.

Banana Smoothie

Banana prevents retention of water in the body and because of this quality, it helps in melting the stomach fat. A banana drink is a great idea for that. Not only by adding few other ingredients it becomes tastier but also helps in melting the stomach fat easily and faster. You just have to mix things like an orange, ¼ table spoon ginger, 2 table spoons of flax seeds and whey powder, yoghurt, along with a spoonful of coconut oil in one banana. It will give good results if it’s taken on an empty stomach. It can also be taken after drinking a glass of lukewarm water early morning. But taking it just once won’t serve the purpose. You have to take it regularly to get the desired results.

As a Combination Food

Apart from taking banana in its original form and in the form of smoothie, mixing bananas with cranberries, raspberries or blueberries along with ginger, honey and little water will also provide the same result. Likewise, in place of berries, if you add spinach, it will also help in reducing stomach fat making you look much slimmer.


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