If you read the news at all, you may have read several articles recently about the sorry state of the airline industry. Even before the war started, airlines were hemorrhaging money left and right, and now airline travel is down significantly due to safety concerns. See USA Today article.) So guess who’s bearing the brunt …
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A new survey has been released that indicates that more than one-third of federal employees who took part in a government-wide survey released today said they were considering leaving their jobs, with a little less than half of the 34.6 percent who are considering leaving said they were planning to retire within three years. According …
In tough economic times, the conventional workplace wisdom is that companies scale back their benefit programs. Not only is cost cutting a significant concern, with benefit cuts marginally more palatable than layoffs, but some companies may feel less pressed to offer comprehensive benefit packages when the job market is much less competitive. So you might …
Now that the U.S. is at war, how will war affect the workplace? For some, a conflict halfway around the world will have little or no impact on their day-to-day schedules, but others will notice some significant changes. Some workplaces have reportedly become more patriotic, with American flags, pins and pictures of loved ones serving …
Wondering how employers are coping with the loss of workers due to the deployment of military reservists? It’s never easy to lose valuable workers on extremely short notice, which is now happening all across the country as a number of reservists face imminent deployment or escalated training activity. Some employers appear to be coping better …
With our nation on the brink of war, you can expect that until the war is over, or at least subsided somewhat, that domestic issues, such as jobs and the economy, are going to be neglected. One place where the war focus will become immediately obvious is in the news media. As we track workplace-related …
It may not come as much of a surprise to our readers that more discrimination suits are filed in tough economic times. (See Kansas City Business Journal story.) As noted by a state antidiscrimination agency official in that article, Laid-off employees think they have nothing to lose in filing a complaint when they think they …
What To Do With Those Pesky Older Workers…Who Just Might Be You Someday (or Now) Read More »
Recently I read an article that I just can’t get out of my head. Even though the article doesn’t specifically address workplace issues, we may all be confronting this issue in the workplace very soon. It helped me put my finger on what’s really bothering me about the policies of the Bush Administration. It’s not …
Did you ever read some study or report in the newspaper, and then months later wonder how to find the information again? Or hear some interesting statistics you’d like to have at your fingertips, but don’t know where to look? Have you wanted to keep track of the latest legislative developments, or wondered what employment …
Last year, when the Democrats held a 10-9 majority on the Senate Judiciary Committee, the Judiciary Committee voted to approve exactly one hundred judicial nominees, including 17 circuit court nominees. (See Sen. Leahy’s floor speech (from the former chair of the Judiciary Committee).) Many of these nominations were controversial, but nonetheless passed through the committee …
She’s BAAAACK! Priscilla Owen Before the Senate Judiciary Committee. Again. 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.
