Career Planning and Recruitment

Are you currently employed outside of the home? If you are, do you regularly find yourself frustrated with the daily commute to and from work? Do you regularly find yourself fed up with workplace gossip or antics that may go on at your company workplace? If you do, have you ever considered [...]

According to the Federal Title VII law, an employer does not have to provide any leave of absence time for a woman to deliver her baby. This may sound odd, and according to California state law, it is. In fact, California state law requires necessary pregnancy leave of four months or less for [...]

Most people are aware of the protected categories of people who are protected by laws and legal statutes from workplace; people cannot be turned down for a job or fired from a job because of their race, religion, gender, sexual orientation, disability, age or because of pregnancy. However, there are other things that are [...]

According to the Federal Title VII law, an employer does not have to provide any leave of absence time for a woman to deliver her baby. This may sound odd, and according to California state law, it is. In fact, California state law requires necessary pregnancy leave of four months or less for [...]

Yorkshire may not be the first place in the UK to think about finding work, but in fact this county has plenty to offer to the jobseeker. Recruitment agencies Yorkshire advertise opportunities in many large towns and cities including Halifax, Swinton and Sheffield. The latter in particular is well known for its steel [...]

According to age discrimination laws, an employer is not allowed to exchange an older employee for an employee of a younger age, or for an employee of the same age. This means that is an employer wants to hire in "new blood" to replace the "old blood" around the office, in order to get [...]

For both women and men, it is important to be able to be yourself all the time, but most specifically in the workplace. While certain behaviors like poor language and inappropriate humor should always be left at home, a person's personal and gender traits cannot be expected to be saved for outside the office. [...]

Some employers are hesitant about hiring people with disabilities. This can be for many reasons, such as the needs that the person will have during his or her work day that would inconvenience the company (i.e. breaks to take medication, doctor's appointments, or special wheelchair accessible offices). While it is not fair to [...]

There are two basic types of racial discrimination that are common in the workplace; the more common one, disparate treatment, is direct and purposefully harmful to the person. Essentially, disparate treatment means that the person being discriminated against is treated in a way that is deemed unfair or is directly discriminated against by the [...]