For on-demand companies that have built their businesses around workers who have flexibility and the freedom, the line between employee and contract worker is blurry.
Love contracts are not themselves new, but they are getting greater attention in workplaces now as companies take fresh looks at harassment policies, training and internal procedures.
The wave of sexual harassment allegations in corporate America has put a new focus on human resource departments and forced companies to decide how much informationif any at allshould be revealed to the public about employee misconduct.
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission told a federal judge Tuesday that the court does not have the power to force the agency to comply with any deadline, or direct the agency to adopt any new rules in the first place.
Lawyers for women who are suing Microsoft argue that the company discriminated against women in engineering and tech roles by offering them lower pay and fewer opportunities for promotions.
Attorneys sparred before a U.S. Court of Appeals, which considered the case of a math consultant in Fresno County, California, filed in 2012 after the consultant discovered she was paid less than male counterparts by as much as $10,000.
The recent national spotlight on accused sexual harassers and the widespread #MeToo social movement have sent companies scrambling for advice on how to address the imbalance of power that protects workplace abusers.
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission lost a fight in court over workplace wellness rules but there are still questions lingering over a solutionparticularly given the Trump administrations new leadership at the agency could shift intentions.
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