On Sex Discrimination, Men at Work Wonder if They’ve Overstepped
From Nov. 10 New York Times by Nellie Bowles: It has been a confusing season for America’s working men, as the conversation around workplace harassment reveals it to be a…
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Employees do want their job to matter, but meaning at work can be hard to find
From today’s Chicago Tribune by Alexia Elejalde-Ruiz: Jennifer Ruiz holds her patient’s trembling hand as she presses a stethoscope to the frail woman’s chest and belly. She compliments the woman…
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House GOP passes bill that rolls back “joint employer” protections for workers
From yesterday’s New York Times by Christine Owens: House Republicans on Tuesday took another step in their campaign to cheat workers out of fair pay and workplace rights. On a…
Cordray Gives No Signal of Departure Plans as CFPB Finalizes Payday Rule
From law.com Oct. 5, 20 by C. Ryan Barber: As the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau moved Thursday to impose tighter restrictions on the payday lending industry, one question still looms…
Actresses—and Millions More Workers—Have No Federal Sexual Harassment Protections
From today’s Nation by Bryce Covert: After the New York Times dropped its bombshell investigation into decades of sexual harassment perpetrated by film producer Harvey Weinstein, and the New Yorker…
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In the Fight Against Poverty, Work Is Our Most Powerful Weapon
From today’s Harvard Business Review by Leila Janah: Fourteen years ago, I left suburban Los Angeles to teach English in rural Ghana. I’d expected, like so many young people with…
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American households finally earn more than they did in 1999, but poverty and inequality are on the rise
From today’s Los Angeles Times “Business” section by Don Lee: After a long period of plodding economic growth, significant earnings gains over the past two years have finally enabled the…
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How the wealth gap between restaurant goers and their servers is widening
From The Guardian, August 20, 2017 by Jill Cowan: Andrea Gillette lined up the bottles of fruit-flavored cocktails behind the bar. The guy who leans a ladder against the big…
Class Actions Lawsuits by Women Could Fight Discrimination in Tech Industry
From today’s New York Times “Opinion” Section by Anita Hill: The recent leak of a Google engineer’s screed against the company’s diversity initiatives is a reminder that the notion of…
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In Sweltering South, Climate Change Is Now a Workplace Hazard
From today’s New York Times by Yamiche Alcindor GALVESTON, Tex. — Adolfo Guerra, a landscaper in this port city on the Gulf of Mexico, remembers panicking as his co-worker vomited…