Sexual Harassment has become one of the top issues in the nation, but sexual harassment training has been available for years and has not appeared to make a significant difference. The National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine (NASEM) recently completed a two-year sexual harassment survey focusing on the issue...
Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf is urging support for a proposed bill that will effectively qualify more workers for overtime pay. The proposal was initiated in 2016 and was originally written to update U.S. overtime pay legislation; Governor Wolf is attempting to push the new proposal through the State Labor Department....
Throughout this country, labor unions play a powerful and positive role in improving conditions in the workplace, protecting workers’ rights, and ensuring pay equality for their members. America’s unions represent millions of public employees, including nurses, firefighters, social workers, and more. In fact, nearly half of all union members in...
Recently, sexual harassment at work has made headlines. Although the MeToo Movement has focused primarily on the experiences of those in Hollywood, those who have the most to lose by sexual harassment at work are low-wage workers. There may be more than meets the eye with low-wage workers that have...
With the MeToo movement in full force, companies of all sizes are scrambling to update their sexual harassment and discrimination policies. Adding or improving employee training courses are also a new priority. A sexual harassment charge can fatally damage a company’s reputation. Harvard Business Review published the results of a...
With the evolution of the MeToo movement, it is evident that sexual harassment is at an all-time high in the workplace. It has been stated that power affects people in three aspects of psychological functioning, including how information is processed, how emotions are experienced, and how behavior is exemplified due...