Career Planning and Recruitment

Part-time employment is one of the fastest-growing forms of employment in the US today. People are working several part-time jobs at a time, while other people just have one part-time job and spend the rest of their time in school or at home with their families. Part-time employment means that the employer only [...]

Of the two common types of racial discrimination that are found in the workplace, disparate impact is the harder one to describe and even harder to prove. Disparate impact, unlike disparate treatment, is not directly aimed at a particular person or race, nor is it intentional. In fact, it is often a complete [...]

Recruiters and recruitment agencies can be a great help to those in the job market who do not have the time to search for a job themselves. This may be because their current full-time job takes up too much of their time, or because of family constraints. Either way, recruiters are a big [...]

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. [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]