Finding Love…At Work? On a day when love is in the air, it’s appropriate to take a look at what’s happening to singles looking for love in today’s workplace. According to the American Management Association, 30% of workers say they have dated at the office. And 44% have married someone they dated at work. (See …
Judges, Judges, Judges! Act Now, Before the Senate Does In another wild and wacky day in our nation’s Capitol, one topic other than war and the budget on the Senate’s agenda was federal judicial nominations, and what to do with no less than five different nominees to the federal appellate courts. The nominee furthest along …
Workplace Bullies Hurt the Bottom Line Most of us have been in a situation where we’ve been forced to deal with a bully at work: a co-worker or supervisor who engages in hostile verbal or nonverbal communication, interfering actions, or withholding of resources–time, information, training, support, equipment–that guarantee failure. You may have found that there’s …
Surfing at Work, Working at Home: Who Wins? One major concern that employers have expressed about employees’ internet access at work is that employees will spend too much time conducting personal business or surfing the web, rather than fulfilling work responsibilities. However, a new study suggests that employers have little to fear, as employees who …
Wal-Mart: World’s Biggest Employer, and Possibly World’s Worst? Almost every day now, it seems, we learn a little bit more about the labor and employment policies of Wal-Mart. And it’s hardly ever good news. As recently reported in USA Today, “[n]ever before has the retail empire, founded in 1962, come under such blistering attack [for …
EEOC Filings Up, But Has Workplace Discrimination Increased? The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has just announced its charge filing and litigation statistics for Fiscal Year 2002, and charge filings are decidedly on the upswing. The EEOC reports that from September 2001 to September 2002, charge filings, the first step in bringing a claim of …
Substituting Lower Paying Jobs for Higher Paying Jobs Many employees, if asked, would say that an employer cannot just reduce your salary, or lay off a group of higher-paid employees in order to create new jobs at a lower pay scale. In most cases, however, they would be wrong. It’s a perfectly legal practice — …
New Developments at the EEOC for Disabled Employees The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the government agency that handles claims of discrimination on the basis of race, color, sex, national origin, religion, age, and disability, recently issued two important announcements related to disability discrimination. Last week, the agency announced that it had reached its largest …
Labor Department to Change Several Labor Law Regulations Changes to overtime calculations, job training program funding, and the Family Medical Leave Act (FMLA) are all in the works as the Bush Administration’s Labor Department (DOL) listens primarily to the concerns of businesses instead of workers and moves to change several decades-old employment regulations. (See AP …
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.
