It’s the time of year when many businesses hire teens for the holidays to handle the anticipated increase in work over the next few weeks. Some of those teens may be getting far more than they have bargained for this holiday season, unfortunately. Instead of just a little extra Christmas cash, these teens are facing …
Teen Jobs with Adult Problems: Sexual Harassment Read More »
It’s that time of year again–the time that we’re supposed to give thanks for what we have (and depending on your personal traditions, eat a lot of turkey and/or watch a lot of football.) So I thought I’d take a look at what the American worker has to be thankful about. I wish the list …
In an otherwise run-of-the-mill story about a jury verdict this week, something caught my eye about the employee who fought back. A Wichita, Kansas jury awarded Mario Goico $2.5 million (soon to be reduced by damages caps) in his lawsuit against Boeing for age and national origin discrimination and retaliation. But Goico isn’t just a …
Years of guarded optimism finally paid off this year, when a provision in the most recent tax legislation to otherwise plague our country contained a provision eliminating the double taxation of attorneys’ fees awards. Now there’s more room for guarded optimism, after the recent oral argument before the U.S. Supreme Court in the combined cases …
Can Discrimination Victims Hope for More Tax Relief? Read More »
Now that post-election reality is setting in, our consideration turns to what the next four years look like for the workers of America. While having a decent job and being able to support one’s family is still a matter of concern for so many Americans, its importance paled in comparison to the “moral values” which …
Shortchanged for Four More Years? Not If We Can Help It! Read More »
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 »
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.
