A former employee of the US Embassy today alleged that there were incidents of Sri Lankan women being harassed by some American diplomats at the US Embassy.<\/p>\n
He said this while re-tweeting a tweet by US Ambassador Alaina Teplitz which was about empowered women powering economies.<\/p>\n
She said she was happy to speak at the American Chamber of Commerce on women in the workplace.<\/p>\n
Re-tweeting Ambassador Teplitz\u2019s tweet, the ex-employee said \u201cYou can’t school anyone on how to treat women in the workplace Ambassador Teplitz, when you’ve not stopped the harassment of Sri Lankan women by some American diplomats at the US Embassy.\u201d<\/p>\n
He said he also wanted to apologise to the \u2018long list of women affected and those who spoke up.\u2019<\/p>\n
When the Embassy was contacted for a comment over the allegations of \u2018harassment\u2019, the Embassy Spokesperson said \u2018sexual harassment\u2019 in the workplace is against US law and is not tolerated.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhile we will not comment on internal matters, we would like to underscore that the Department of State is committed to providing a workplace that is free from sexual harassment. Sexual harassment in the workplace is against US law and is not tolerated. If the Department receives an allegation of sexual harassment, or has reason to believe sexual harassment is occurring, it takes the necessary steps to ensure that the matter is promptly investigated and addressed,\u201d the Spokesperson said.<\/p>\n
The former employee said the women were \u2018harassed\u2019 and we asked the embassy about alleged incidents of \u2018harassment\u2019 whereas the embassy’s response was focused on \u2018sexual harassment.‘ <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n Courtesy: Daily Mirror<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A former employee of the US Embassy today alleged that there were incidents of…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":6707,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-srilankan-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6706","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6706"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6706\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}