Republican leaders in the House are supporting a bill that would let employers set an English only policy on the job.
This week the Supreme Court took up a case that could have far-reaching effects on workplace discrimination lawsuits nationwide.
The media spotlight might have shone most intensely on Jena, Louisiana, but a symbol of racial violence has been hung across America lately, spurring anger, resentment and a big question.
Some key questions in Isiah Thomas' sexual harassment trial:
Bloomberg L.P., the news and financial services company, was accused by the federal government Thursday of discriminating against women who became pregnant and took maternity leave.
Bill Demeza, a partner at the Holland & Knight law firm, specializes in defending companies from employee lawsuits. Roxanne Davis, principal of Davis Gavsie in Los Angeles, represents employees. Here are their suggestions for avoiding the courtroom.
While half of all baby boomers expect to be working past 65 years old, only about 13 percent of retirees are actually doing so, according to a recent study.
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission collected a record $420 million from employers that violated workplace discrimination laws even as the total number of complaints filed dropped for the second consecutive year.
Even as the jobs picture slowly improves - the unemployment rate fell to 5.2 percent in January - career seekers should still focus in on its brightest parts. Many fields are likely to grow, even if employment markets stagnate.
THE DELUGE BEGAN LAST MAY. THAT'S WHEN Boeing agreed to cough up as much as $72.5 million to settle a class-action lawsuit brought by female employees; they had asserted that the company paid them ...
Republican leaders in the House are supporting a bill that would let employers set an English only policy on the job.
This week the Supreme Court took up a case that could have far-reaching effects on workplace discrimination lawsuits nationwide.
The media spotlight might have shone most intensely on Jena, Louisiana, but a symbol of racial violence has been hung across America lately, spurring anger, resentment and a big question.
Some key questions in Isiah Thomas' sexual harassment trial:
Bloomberg L.P., the news and financial services company, was accused by the federal government Thursday of discriminating against women who became pregnant and took maternity leave.
Bill Demeza, a partner at the Holland & Knight law firm, specializes in defending companies from employee lawsuits. Roxanne Davis, principal of Davis Gavsie in Los Angeles, represents employees. Here are their suggestions for avoiding the courtroom.
While half of all baby boomers expect to be working past 65 years old, only about 13 percent of retirees are actually doing so, according to a recent study.
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission collected a record $420 million from employers that violated workplace discrimination laws even as the total number of complaints filed dropped for the second consecutive year.
Even as the jobs picture slowly improves - the unemployment rate fell to 5.2 percent in January - career seekers should still focus in on its brightest parts. Many fields are likely to grow, even if employment markets stagnate.
THE DELUGE BEGAN LAST MAY. THAT'S WHEN Boeing agreed to cough up as much as $72.5 million to settle a class-action lawsuit brought by female employees; they had asserted that the company paid them ...
Anita Hill lives a quiet existence in Massachusetts, teaching her law students and using free time for drawing and painting, but 13 years ago she was at the center of a political firestorm.
Dear Annie: A friend of mine was laid off recently, supposedly because he failed to meet certain (ridiculously high) goals. In truth, he thinks it was because he is much older and more expensive th...
FedEx Corp, the world's largest air-express mail service, was ordered to pay $1.5 million for retaliating against an employee who tried to promote two minority workers, according to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission Wednesday.
Sexual harassment complaints by men are becoming more common, according to a published report.
Morgan Stanley will be the target of the first sexual discrimination case brought by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission against a Wall Street firm when the trial begins Wednesday, according to a published report.
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At first Richard Kidman couldn't figure out why, after 23 years of running R.D.'s Drive-In, everything seemed to be falling apart.
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Blackmail is such an ugly word. But it's the best description of what happens when the passionate cooings of knowledge-management gurus get translated into the harsh realpolitik of today's corporat...
DEAR ANNIE: Please settle an argument for me. I have a team of six people reporting to me, one of whom is so obnoxious--rude, sarcastic, hostile, and argumentative--that no one can stand working wi...
DEAR ANNIE: My company has been bought, and my department is fairly certain that we are toast. I've been here for a little over ten years in pretty much the same job, because I like my work--and I ...
The brain totters, the mind boggles, the windpipe constricts, and the existential reality sinks in: Proposition 209 has been hijacked. The 54% of voters who supported the proposition, a.k.a. the Ca...
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MEMO TO PRESIDENT CLINTON: While you and the rest of the Beltway bigwigs consider re-engineering affirmative action programs that favor minorities, the nation's 60 million working women might not c...
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Women and minorities embarking on careers in white-collar America may find the welcome they receive a tad harsh. A survey of 200 top college students by the Hanigan Consulting Group shows that Fort...
It seems that the ideal of religious tolerance is now enforced by a federal agency that writes sentences like the following, taken from a recent ''fact sheet'' issued by the Equal Employment Opport...
Just like the universe, the law of discrimination keeps expanding. It has done more of the same in the past few months, to ecstatic reviews in the media, where the present naysayer is as usual the ...
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With the ranks of workers ages 50 and up growing by about 1% each year amid massive corporate layoffs, age-bias complaints filed with state and federal regulators have jumped 28% since 1990 to more...
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Let's see. First there was no regulation. Then there was regulation. Then, beginning in the Carter years and accelerating under Reagan, there was deregulation. Now there is reregulation. Reregulati...
Why has the deponent spent hours the past week hovering over data on fatness? What is so fascinating about human blubber? What policy issues can it possibly illuminate? Since the editors around her...
Is the Bush Administration really against race and sex quotas? That might seem an implausible lead sentence to be composing only two months after the President stoutly vetoed the Civil Rights Act o...
We open with three gripping flashbacks: Scene One: A class in formal logic at New York University. Time: 1945. Philosopher Sidney Hook is telling the class that the tu quoque argument -- in which y...
Your servant was recently browsing through Nexis, reading about the death penalty, not because this is his idea of a good time, honest, but because he was thinking of writing something about the in...
SAN FRANCISCO -- A group of Hispanic firefighters wants to establish ((a)) . . . panel to certify who is -- and who is not -- Hispanic . . . The Hispanic firefighters' request, which has been prese...
Eleven National City ((near San Diego)) police officers were caught cheating on a promotion exam, but no disciplinary action was taken against them because they were never instructed not to cheat, ...
Back when your correspondent was a callow collegian, the campuses were not crawling with professional sex researchers. In 1942, nobody was so rude as to inquire of Rutgers freshmen whether they spe...
Although generally loath to talk up the competition, we find ourselves again recommending instant acquisition of the Journal of Vocational Behavior, last plugged here on August 3, 1987. This schola...
A theory being eagerly broached by certain optimistic conservatives is that Watson v. Fort Worth Bank & Trust, decided by the Supreme Court this summer, is not all bad. Some say it may even be good...
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Nobody knows if Congress's multi-tentacled bill will actually curb illegal immigration, but it will surely confuse and complicate hiring for U.S. companies. Says labor lobbyist Virginia Lamp of the...
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Z Power Curious letter, Z. We are sitting here frowning over Webster's New World Dictionary, where Z is nonchalantly stated in definition No. 4 to be ''a symbol for the 26th in a sequence or group ...
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