Those of us more than a little giddy about the election results, and what it could mean for workers, still haven’t come down to earth yet after the November 7 election. But now the hard part is coming — and you thought the hard part was getting the entrenched incumbents out of office. Now that …
As a nonprofit and nonpartisan organization, Workplace Fairness can’t tell you how to vote (although we’d sure like to sometimes!) But we can tell you a few things that we hope you’ll be keeping in mind next Tuesday, November 7. Although workplace issues, and domestic issues in general, have trouble rising to the forefront as …
See what happens when you put the foxes in charge of the henhouse? They have you believing that the hens’ demise is all their own doing. Just look at the Department of Labor’s strategic plan for the next five years. It’s probably not that much of a surprise that “training” is the buzzword in Elaine …
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Just when you think you’ve seen it all, then you see something that still has the capacity to make your blood boil. For me, this week, it was the following statement, found on the editorial page of the New York Times: “Has any organization in the world lifted more people out of poverty than Wal-Mart?” …
We’re all human and make mistakes during our lives. Some are obviously bigger than others, and have the ability to haunt us for considerable lengths of time. A recent workplace mistake that no one in Ottawa County, Michigan is likely to forget anytime soon was delicately described as “a missing “L” in the word public,” …
And it’s a dark day, indeed. While in theory, it might sound good to be instantly promoted from rank-and-file worker to supervisor, Tuesday, October 3 will not be a day that those who received the “instant promotion” will ultimately remember fondly. When the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) decided to decimate the meaning of the …
Talk about work-life balance! It was recently reported that when Chinese schools announced that single-parent teachers would be allowed to keep their jobs in the face of widespread layoffs, 41 teachers at a single school filed for divorce in a week. Could that happen here? Maybe not as blatantly, but it’s clear that workers every …
Well, not quite…it was just a reception (with free food and drink.) But it was work-related…the most famous retiree in America right now headlined a fundraising event in Washington, DC to support the Arizona and Nevada state minimum wage campaigns. When my turn came to speak with the tennis legend, I thanked him for supporting …
Perhaps not, but there are definitely some really bad ways that employees have suddenly lost their jobs. Radio Shack made headlines last week for delivering the 21st century version of the pink slip by laying off over 400 employees via e-mail. The resulting publicity then spawned some stories about even more egregious ways that companies …
Labor Day is a prime opportunity for organizations like Workplace Fairness to reflect upon how the American worker has fared, asking the Reaganesque question, “are you better off now than you were last year?” We attempt to answer this question in our latest special report: The Good, The Bad, and Wal-Mart: the Year in Workplace …
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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.
