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Incorporating Gender Into the Quantitative Analysis of Macro-Poverty Links |
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Monday, 08 May 2006 |
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This paper examines how gender issues are addressed in current analyses of macro-poverty links. Among CGE models, if gender-based issues are modeled at all, they tend to be secondary in importance and often added as a special device to a standard model. However, new studies are emerging that... |
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The Illusion of Inclusion: Why Most Corporate Diversity Efforts Fail |
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Wednesday, 03 May 2006 |
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On the demand side today, companies have developed compelling new rationales for increasing their diversity efforts - often, as at Fannie Mae, echoing strategic business initiatives. In a small, informal survey by CFO magazine, the top reason large-company CFOs gave for boosting diversity was to... |
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EEOC Rules Against Carpal-Tunnel Test |
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Wednesday, 03 May 2006 |
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The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has ruled that Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railroad secretly conducted genetic testing on a number of employees who submitted claims of work-related carpal-tunnel syndrome. The EEOC also said the company broke the Americans with Disabilities Act by... |
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Buying Bias Coverage: Risk Doesn't Discriminate |
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Wednesday, 03 May 2006 |
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One factor that could drive employees to take bias cases to court is the increasing likelihood that they'll win. The current uptick in corporate mergers could also boost the number of suits. To squeeze out so-called synergies from a merger deal, managements could choose, as they have in the past,... |
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Gender Imbalance in State Bureaucracies |
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Saturday, 29 April 2006 |
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Research from the University of Arkansas indicates that integration of women into administrative and professional positions at state governmental bureaucracies has been slow over the past decade. In fact, it will take well over half a century to achieve gender balance across all state agencies if... |
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Court Ruling That Employer's Integrity Test Violated ADA Could Open Door to Litigation |
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Saturday, 29 April 2006 |
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Since the use of polygraphs in most employment settings was outlawed in 1988, employers have been flocking to integrity or honesty testing as the best way to get behind a prospective employee's resume. As many as 5 million tests are given a year, and the testing industry, which has been growing... |
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Visa Limits Fuel Frustration in Efforts to Fill High-Skill Jobs |
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Saturday, 29 April 2006 |
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When U.S. recruiters go out to buy technical talent, they shop in domestic markets that are highly protected by restrictive immigration policies, voluminous and ever-changing rules and a cumbersome visa process. The prime example of this regulatory nightmare is the H-1B visa program. Because... |
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Labor Law for Supervisors: Individual "Concerted" Activity Under Federal Labor Laws |
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Monday, 10 April 2006 |
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Federal labor laws protect concerted activity by employees. Such laws are the legal basis for labor unions. They also are the legal basis for certain activity engaged in by non-unionized employees, for example, a group work stoppage over unfair working conditions. Although the very word "Concerted"... |
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Union Rules in Nonuinon Settings: The NLRB and Workplace Investigations |
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Monday, 10 April 2006 |
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This paper first briefly reviews the heightened importance of conducting workplace investigations. Then it focuses on the latest development in the investigatory process, the reach of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) into the nonunion workforce, and present suggestions to employers for... |
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Labor Law for Supervisors: Protection for the Ethical Employee - Part I, Common Law Wrongful... |
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Monday, 10 April 2006 |
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This paper describes the employees concerned for workplace ethics, whether their own or someone else's. While surveys indicate increasing numbers of companies are adopting corporate codes of ethics, engaging in ethics training and providing resources for employees on ethical issues, these same... |
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