State employees in Michigan will be required to enroll in "implicit bias training" as part of an executive directive signed by Gov. Gretchen Whitmer on Aug. 5. The directive also recognized racism as "a public health crisis," citing the disproportionate number of...
A recent Bloomberg article on American work environments notes a view prevalent among business principals that workers have long had too much freedom in publicly lashing out against alleged workplace wrongs. The Bloomberg piece especially spotlights "comments made on...
Federal research and development center Jet Propulsion Laboratory obviously commands exceptional acumen in its oversight of some singular and notably complicated tasks.Like operating missions to the Moon. Like designing robotic space vehicles. Like managing...
Why the wait? The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs readily concedes that it has a serious and endemic problem linked with pervasive sexual harassment in its facilities nationwide. Notwithstanding the admission, though, VA principals stress that remedial action will...
Human resource departments are often the first-place workers go for guidance when experiencing discrimination within the workplace. But are these departments as helpful as we would like? According to one survey, human resource departments throughout the country are...
Short on widespread discriminatory evidence, but long on damning statistics. That is essentially one summation of a workplace discrimination lawsuit filed recently against mega Wall Street bank Morgan Stanley by an ex-employee.And not just any former worker. The...
A group of U.S. senators recently drafted a notably forceful letter to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg. They lambasted his company for its “significant gaps between professed commitment to racial justice and the company’s actions and business...
According to the nonprofit newsroom ProPublica, the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) fired or forced out approximately 44,000 workers after being injured on the job. The agency also changed or revoked disability accommodations for another 15,130. These firings took place to...
In a landmark decision with origins in Michigan, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in June that a federal civil rights law protects LGBTQ employees. In essence, employers cannot fire or discriminate against someone for being transgender or gay.The high-profile case...
Fundamental fairness and evenhanded policies toward all employees have always been aspirational goals of companies in Michigan and across the countryCandidly, some enterprises do better than others. Select companies garner consistently high marks from their workers...
