Beware the rule-following co-worker, Harvard study warns
Every workplace has them. The colleague who bad-mouths you behind your back at the water cooler. The boss who takes credit for everyone else’s ideas. The sexist jerk people actively avoid by taking circuitous routes to the … Continue reading
More women alleging harassment want to join lawsuit against RCMP
Nearly 400 female RCMP officers and civilian employees from across Canada are asking a B.C judge to certify a class action lawsuit filed by Const. Janet Merlo over sexual harassment … Continue reading
Philosophy of Sexism?
The University of Colorado at Boulder on Friday announced that it was changing the leadership of its philosophy department and requiring mandatory training for all faculty in an effort to … Continue reading
In Bullying Case, Questions on N.F.L. Culture
This unfolding saga is forcing the National Football League to uncomfortably turn its gaze toward locker room culture and start defining the gray areas between good-natured pranks and hurtful bullying. … Continue reading
Walmart Activism Is Effecting Change At World’s Largest Retailer, Organizers Say
This week, OUR Walmart, the union-backed association that Sparks joined, has been holding demonstrations in Bentonville, Ark. — Walmart’s headquarters — leading up to the annual shareholders’ meeting on Friday. … Continue reading
Employee undergoing sex change gets $22,000 in human rights case
The case of Maria VanderPutten and Seydaco Packing Corp. is the first of its kind in Ontario looking at how employers must deal with issues related to transgendered employees. These … Continue reading
Office Politics: The App
In the game “Office Politics,” players get promoted up the rungs of the corporate ladder by backstabbing as many co-workers as they can in a kind of cubicle whack-a-mole. Since … Continue reading
When Bullies go to Work
People are very surprised when they think about these things happening in the workplace. Yet it’s all around us – a 2010 workplace bullying study found that 35 percent of … Continue reading
