Elsewhere in the Workplace Fairness web site, you will learn a great deal about what is required to litigate a case: where to file, how to find a lawyer, what agency to file with–all the kinds of information you need to fight back in court or before a government agency. Today, though, I’d like to …
Here’s a fairly novel idea (unfortunately) that really should be tried more often in policy debates. Let’s call it the “how do you like them apples!” or the “good enough for the gander” approach. Take some controversial new policy proposal on the table, and then analyze what would happen to lawmakers if they were subjected …
Pension Reform: Can Lawmakers Live with the Results? Read More »
The news just in from Congress: the Civil Rights Tax Relief Act, one of the most important pieces of civil rights legislation pending before Congress in the last several years, has been reintroduced. (The bill numbers are HR 1155(House) and S 557 (Senate). You can continue to track the bills’ progress at the Thomas legislative …
Stop Taxing Discrimination Awards: The Civil Rights Tax Relief Act is Back Read More »
As I suspected, I didn’t have an opportunity on my trip to post, which will explain the absence of blog posts during the last week. However, I’m now back on the job, with lots of interesting developments just waiting to be commented upon, so I’ll do my best to catch up a little this week.
If you’re having trouble getting your daily fix of your favorite cartoon, you really should know about UComics.com. Although my local paper doesn’t run my personal favorite, editorial cartoonist Tom Toles, I can still get a daily dose of Toles from UComics, by signing up for their daily subscription service, which delivers each day’s comic …
I will be traveling this week to San Francisco for business this week, and my computer access will be spotty, making it difficult to keep up with postings to this blog. I will do my best to post some blog entries; however, I may not be able to produce daily posts. I am attending a …
Progress in Several States on Sexual Orientation Discrimination Laws It was announced today that New Mexico may soon become the 14th state to make it illegal to discriminate on the basis of sexual orientation, and the third to have a law making gender identity discrimination illegal. See Human Rights Campaign press release.) A celebration is …
Is There Less Workplace Privacy These Days? Workplace monitoring is on the rise, no doubt about it. According to an American Management Association survey, more than three-quarters of major companies now record and review employee communications and on-the-job activities. (See USA Today article.). And that’s just after you get a job–background investigations are also on …
Union Membership Down; Is Interest in Joining Up? Union leaders gathered in Hollywood, Florida for this week’s AFL-CIO winter executive council meeting were confronted with some bad news. Union membership has reached its lowest level in two decades, according to the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL). Some 13.2 percent of America’s work force belonged to …
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.
