Employee Discrimination

The U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) recently released its annual report on telework. Because of delays in data gathering, the report only addressed telework through 2020. Unsurprisingly, it found a huge spike in government telework. It also found that many...

A candid workplace-linked admission compels acknowledgement that COVID-19 dislocations and related life disruptions over the past year-plus have affected male and female employees in different ways. Not all of them, of course. Legions of members from both sexes have...

“Jim” is a fellow employee at your workplace. You can see that Jim is unhappy and harboring material on-the-job stress. You don’t know exactly why that should be the case. You know Jim as a productive and willing worker, but you can see that there is some manifest and...

Here’s a little takeaway regarding workplace pay in the United States that is both a bit ironic and perplexing. To wit: Although a PEW Research Center survey stresses that legions of Americans “see equal pay as central to gender equality,” that salutary on-the-job...

If there were do-overs enabling business principals to peel back time, the top-tier management team at commercial titan Amazon would undoubtedly avail itself of one. In fact, it might just favor erasing May from the 2021 calendar altogether. Candidly, the first month...

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission plays a key and manifestly protective role in the labor sphere. As a proven source on labor law notes, the EEOC “oversees equal employment in the federal workplace.” The term “equal employment” cannot be quickly or simply...

It’s like expressing dire concerns “with the fox that’s guarding the henhouse.” So says a worker with the Dallas district office of the federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. Readers of this national employment law blog forum are well attuned to the workings...

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...

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...