Progressives in Canada are fighting a proposal by the Harper government to abolish access to the Human Rights Commission for federal workers who want to bring pay equity complaints. In legislation introduced last November, the government seeks to cut back on women's rights to equity in compensation by several maneuvers, including redefinitions of the criteria [...]
Four San Diego firefighters have won a sexual harassment suit by arguing that being ordered to represent the department by participating in a gay pride parade led to catcalls directed at them and their being forced to watch gay men simulate sex acts. The verdict both trivializes the kind of at-work quasi-terrorism that can constitute [...]
A new program in Britain, described in The Guardian: Parents who take long career breaks to look after their children are to be rewarded with £500 in training grants to coax them back into work. The grants will be made to every person who has taken more than five years off work to care for [...]
Jillian Weiss at Transworkplace has the background on an extensive case study in the current issue of Harvard Business Review, focused on how an employer can respond to a person who transitions from male to female. This is an important moment, given the importance of HBR and the influence of its case studies, which frequently [...]
TIMEOne of the oldest debates in contemporary social science is why women earn less than men. … A new study looks at this problem in a wonderfully inventive way. In previous studies, academics have looked at variables like years of education and the effects of outside forces such as nondiscrimination policies. But gender was always [...]
Workplace Prof Blog: EEOC and HHS Clash on Proposed HHS RuleIn late August, the US Department of Health and Human Services proposed a regulation on health care "Provider Conscience." That proposed regulation would, among other things, prohibit discrimination "against any physician or other health care professional in the employment, promotion, termination, or extension of staff [...]