The costly business of discrimination #wage #gender #race ?
Senator: Ban bosses from asking for Facebook passwords
Sen. Richard Blumenthal has a status update for employers who ask job seekers for access to their private Facebook accounts: He?s writing a bill to outlaw the practice. The Connecticut Democrat and former state attorney general told POLITICO that those kind of requests from prospective employers amount to an ?unreasonable invasion of privacy? for those looking for work.
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0312/74325.html
Gov. Tomblin signs mine safety bill ? again
West Virginia Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin already signed the state?s new mine safety bill last week, but the governor?s office had an official ?signing ceremony? this afternoon anyway, in the shadow of the coal miner statute at the Capitol. A press release said the governor ?publicly addressed this monumental piece of legislation.?
http://blogs.wvgazette.com/coaltattoo/2012/03/21/gov-tomblin-signs-mine-safet...
Proposal to kill Arizona minimum wage pulled
Arizona workers at the bottom of the pay scale are going to keep getting raises each year to match inflation, at least for the time being. House Majority Leader Steve Court said Tuesday he has pulled the plug on his proposal to ask voters to repeal the state?s minimum wage.
http://www.eastvalleytribune.com/money/article_c097d6f8-72e6-11e1-a22c-001871...
Why does Idaho?s governor pay female employees so much less than men?
The women who work in Idaho Gov. Butch Otter?s (R) cabinet make substantially less than their male colleagues, according to a McClatchy analysis of state salary data. Despite chairing the state Agriculture Department, for instance, Director Celia Gould makes less than male directors.
http://www.todaysworkplace.org/2012/03/22/why-does-idaho%E2%80%99s-governor-p...
The costly business of discrimination
There?s a price to be paid for workplace discrimination?$64 billion. That amount represents the annual estimated cost of losing and replacing more than 2 million American workers who leave their jobs each year due to unfairness and discrimination. Only 21 states and the District of Columbia have outlawed employment discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation, and only 16 states and the District of Columbia have done so on the basis of gender identity.
http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2012/03/lgbt_discrim.html
FedEx agrees to pay $3 million to settle a bias case
The United States Department of Labor has reached a $3 million settlement with the ground delivery unit of FedEx to resolve allegations that the company discriminated against 21,635 job seekers at two dozen FedEx facilities in 15 states. The Labor Department?s Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs reached the agreement with FedEx Ground Package Systems after saying that it had found evidence of discrimination in hiring on the basis of sex, race and national origin.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/22/business/fedex-agrees-to-pay-3-million-to-s...
Compost company fined in poisonous gas deaths of two workers
State workplace safety regulators issued more than $166k in fines Wednesday against a prominent recycling and compost company that runs a Kern County, Calif., site where two brothers died last fall from exposure to poisonous gas.
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-recycle-deaths-20120322,0,5587813.story
Workers die at factories used by Tommy Hilfiger
More than a year after 29 people were trapped in a fire at a garment factory in Bangladesh used by well-known American clothing brands, an ABC News investigation found that the retailer is right back in business at the factory. And labor groups say dangerous conditions such as locked gates and shoddy wiring persist in a country where nearly 500 workers have died in garment factory fires over the past five years.
http://www.670kboi.com/rssItem.asp?feedid=113&itemid=29818825
Construction worker killed in building collapse in Manhattan
A construction worker was killed and two others were injured on Thursday morning in the collapse of a partly demolished two-story building in Upper Manhattan that was owned by Columbia University, the authorities said.
http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/03/22/construction-worker-killed-in-bu...
Law office fires 14 workers for wearing orange shirts
Where I work, we get donuts on payday Friday. At one law office in Florida, workers go to happy hour after work. They all wear the same color shirt so they look like a group when they go out for happy hour. 14 workers wearing orange shirts were called into a conference room, where an executive said he understood there was a protest involving orange, the employees were wearing orange, and they all were fired.
http://www.todaysworkplace.org/2012/03/22/law-office-fires-14-workers-for-wea...
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