How to Disclose a Disability to Your Employer (and Whether You Should)
From today’s New York Times: If you, like thousands of others, live with a visible or invisible disability, here’s what you need to know if you want to tell your…
U.S. Women Won, Men Lost, and Equal Pay Fight Tied Them Together Again
From today’s New York Times: For American soccer fans, the juxtaposition was hard to ignore: the United States women’s team winning a record fourth World Cup championship in France, its…
Why Gay Rights Is a Republican Value
From today’s New York Times: Conservatives support freedom, which is why they should oppose job discrimination against LGBTQ Americans. This week, more than 2,000 signatories — members of Congress, women’s…
Machines May Not Take Your Job, but One Could Become Your Boss
From today’s New York Times: When Conor Sprouls, a customer service representative in the call center of the insurance giant MetLife talks to a customer over the phone, he keeps…
The Supreme Court May Erode Decades of Wins for LGBT Worker Rights
From today’s Bloomberg Business Week: For two decades, most of the LGBT movement’s highest-profile victories have come at the U.S. Supreme Court. In 2003 the justices issued a ruling legalizing…
New Evidence of Age Bias in Hiring, and a Push to Fight It
From today’s New York Times: Across the United States, mammoth corporations and family businesses share a complaint: a shortage of workers. As the unemployment rate has tunneled its way to…
Walmart CEO to shareholders: America’s minimum wage is ‘too low’
From today’s CNN News Online: Walmart CEO Doug McMillon thinks the federal minimum wage is “too low.” Now the head of the country’s largest private employer is calling on Congress…
Walmart workers invite Sen. Sanders to crash the company’s annual meeting
From today’s Washington Post: For years, Walmart workers have attended the company’s annual shareholders meeting to call for higher wages, better benefits and more predictable schedules. This year they’ll have…
Uber drivers are contractors, not employees, U.S. labor agency says
From today’s Reuters News Service: Drivers for ride-hailing company Uber Technologies Inc are independent contractors and not employees, the general counsel of a U.S. labor agency has concluded, in an…
Workers, Should You Tell the World How Much Money You Make?
From today’s New York Times: There are many questions Alison Green is asked as a columnist who writes about workplace issues. There was the woman who wanted to know if…