EMPLOYMENT LAW

The Women’s Bureau, part of the Department of Labor, was created by Congress in 1920. The organization’s mission is to research and promote policies to improve working conditions for women. The organization also provides general information on the rights of women workers and agencies that enforce these rights as well as information on support groups […]

Hiring Foreign Workers in the Current Immigration Climate Note: Former Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) is now called U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS). The tragic events of September 11 have focused the country’s attention on the shortcomings of the Immigration and Naturalization Service (“INS”). The INS failed to keep track of some of the […]

Briefly, the law recognizes two types of sexual harassment… The first falls under the category of quid pro quo, or one thing in exchange for another. A person in authority demands sexual favors of a subordinate as a condition of getting or keeping a job or benefit. Allegations of such incidents account for only 5 […]

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