With perhaps the most important election of our lifetime just days away, we are acutely aware of the issues our nation faces and the choices we make that determine our future. Many of the most critical issues today are those faced by the working people of America. With each passing day, more and more of …
Buried at page 343 in the midst of a corporate tax bill spanning more than six hundred pages may very well be the most significant piece of civil rights legislation passed in the last decade (and certainly in the past four years). While the existence of this particular tax break might not mean very much …
The Long and Winding Road: Workers Finally Will Experience Tax Relief (and Fairness) Read More »
If you have health insurance provided by your employer, you can consider yourself among the lucky, because there are over eighty-five million Americans who went without insurance in the last two years. Workers used to be able to take for granted that health insurance coverage would come with a full time position, but that assumption …
Got Health Insurance? You Don’t Know How Good You Got It Read More »
When these guys get on the boob tube and say there’s jobs out there, you just gotta go out there and get them, it makes me want to go out there and grab them by the throat and say, “Where? Where are the jobs at?” –Robert Boyer, As Income Gap Widens, Uncertainty Spreads, Washington Post, …
Can You Tell Me Where My Job Is? And While You’re At It, Where’s My American Dream? Read More »
Although Labor Day has passed, it’s still a great time of year to think about the role of organized labor in improving conditions for American workers. Although few will dispute that the role of unions today isn’t what it used to be, several unions are making noteworthy efforts to stem the decline by forming associate …
Unions Create Associate Membership Programs to Help Maintain Their Strength Read More »
Until Tuesday of this week, if you’ve heard much about Costco Wholesale at all, especially in the context of how the company treats its workers, it was probably positive news. Costco, the big box wholesale warehouse retailer, was getting plenty of good press in the past few years as the anti-Wal-Mart, the company doing right …
Costco: Paragon of Corporate Virtue, or a Company that Discriminates Against Women? Read More »
While members of Congress and countless Americans enjoy their summer vacations between now and Labor Day, there lies a huge piece of unfinished business on the Congressional agenda–one that could make the summer for those average Americans much less enjoyable after August 23. Congress has adjourned for its traditional summer recess without doing anything to …
Congress Vacations, Workers Can’t: No Overtime Fix Yet Read More »
The noise undoubtedly has reverberated up and down Wall Street, if not throughout the country, after a $54 million settlement was reached yesterday in Manhattan, just before trial was to start. For a class of female employees of Morgan Stanley, this settlement may never be enough to compensate them for their earning potential before they …
Getting ready for the long Fourth of July Weekend, you might have missed the observance of a very important anniversary on Friday, July 2: the 40th anniversary of the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Those of you who regularly read our blog undoubtedly have more than a passing interest in Title VII, …
Civil Rights Act Anniversary: 40 Years Just a Beginning Read More »
Unless you’ve been holed up under a rock for the past week, you have probably heard by now about the ruling allowing the most massive sex discrimination class action case ever to go forward against Wal-Mart Stores. And at this point, there probably isn’t much left that hasn’t been said about it already, because such …
Wal-Mart Ruling Creates a Media Firestorm, and Systemic Change to Come Read More »
Madeline Messa is a 3L at Syracuse University College of Law. She graduated from Penn State with a degree in journalism. With her legal research and writing for Workplace Fairness, she strives to equip people with the information they need to be their own best advocate.
