Toni Van Pelt makes a number of instructive – indeed, compelling – points in a recent article she wrote concerning American women and their on-the-job pay. That shouldn’t be surprising. Van Pelt’s studied reflections come courtesy of her long tenure as a working woman...
It’s generally a one-and-done deal when it comes to experiencing sexual harassment in a federal workplace, right? Put another way: As obviously unpleasant as it is to be on the receiving end of such conduct, isn’t mistreatment doled out by a manager or coworker...
Project Include is an organization focused on America’s vast and ever-growing high-tech employment realm. The enterprise is a nonprofit advocacy group, with its mission statement underscoring its efforts “to accelerate diversity and inclusion solutions in the tech...
The Merit Systems Protection Board is a federal agency with impressive scope and powers. In a nutshell, notes an authoritative legal source on employment law and workers’ rights, the MSPB is tasked with “protecting the integrity of the federal merit systems and the...
Not every working individual in the United States is routinely happy with what goes on at work, of course. Some employees are harassed by managers or coworkers. Others are discriminated against because of a core attribute such as race, gender, age, national origin or...
Systemic racism. That it is a worker-authored accusation viewed with dread by any American business enterprise. Especially one that stands as a colossus among companies in terms of size and clout. Tech giant Amazon is spotlighted in today’s blog post, and in a flatly...
Experience counts. That is an adage with applicability across a broad spectrum of life, including at the workplace. Especially at the workplace. Do you want a freshly minted graduate from flight school at the helm of a jumbo airliner you’re on, or a seasoned veteran...
If you are a worker with a few years of experience in the federal sphere, you’ve likely seen differentiated and even inconsistent treatment doled out to employees who are targeted in internal investigations. Some workers sail through those probes without a hitch. They...
Any given American workplace might spell utopia for select employees, but the reality surrounding most work environments is that on-the-job upsides are tempered by imperfections. And that is nowhere more apparent in many companies and varied work venues than in noted...
It’s not like relatively mature American employees are unaware that a discriminatory hurdle exists in work venues across the country. After all, they comprise the most seasoned U.S. work demographic. Collectively, they are intuitive to a heightened degree when it...
