This Week in the Courts: Learn About Recent Decisions Here Have you been looking for a place where you can find recent court decisions? Now you can look here to find the latest decisions from the U.S. Supreme Court and federal appellate courts around the country. The new site feature, This Week in the Courts, …
Disabled Worker in California Benefits From Less Restrictive State Disability Discrimination Standards Disabled workers in California won an important victory today as the California Supreme Court announced its decision in Colmenares v. Braemar Country Club. (See LA Times story.) At stake in Colmenares was whether the California law barring discrimination in jobs and housing protects …
Diverse Set of Affirmative Action Allies File in Supreme Court Case What do Microsoft, Gen. Norman Schwarzkopf, the American Psychological Association, Hillary Rodham Clinton, and Nike, Inc. all have in common? They are some of the most recognizable names that support affirmative action programs and have filed briefs before the U.S. Supreme Court in one …
Gender Pay Gap Narrowest on Record We’ve all been hearing for years about the gender gap when it comes to salaries, and how over the last couple of decades, very little progress has been made in closing that gap. Finally there’s some good news, however, according to the latest release from the Bureau of Labor …
Today’s News Headlines: Stay on Top of the Latest Workplace Developments Can’t keep track of all the various news articles and Internet stories out there about employment law and workplace issues? Let us do it for you! Just added to the Workplace Fairness web site is the feature “Today’s News Headlines.” Each day, as we …
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 …
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.
