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The scenario: For more than 16 years, a man who was deaf and blind worked in a job that required him to repeatedly handle the same task. He was provided with a full-time job coach, but the employer didn’t have to pay for the coach because the funds …
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The scenario: After learning that her local labor union had participated in a march that supported abortion rights, a woman engaged in a series of Facebook posts expressing outrage that her union dues were being used to promote a cause that was in …
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You might find it hard to believe at first, but one out of every three members of your crew could currently be involved in a workplace romance. That’s the upshot of a recent survey of 550 U.S. employees conducted by the Society for Human Resource …
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Supervisor’s take-home: You now have less flexibility to deny a job-related request made by a returning servicemember. A recently issued U.S. Supreme Court ruling will make it harder for certain employers to defend themselves against lawsuits filed …
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Overview: After he sought a promotion, an African American man was told, “Your Black ass doesn’t need a promotion.” The scenario: When Tracy Gooch, a Black man employed by Nashville Electric Services (NES), Nashville, TN, first heard that he’d been …
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The scenario: When a 58-year-old white man told his boss that he was thinking about applying for a promotion, he was told that he wouldn’t have a shot at the job because he was an “old, white man with not enough runway left in his …
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