Graduation season is upon us, and that comes with a lot of boring speeches and a few gems. My niece, Katie Adams, and my nephew, Stephen Black, both graduated from my alma mater, Brigham Young University, last week; Katie with a master’s degree in accounting, and Stephen with a
Discrimination against people for their sexual orientation is wrong, right? We should hire, promote, and pay people based on what they contribute to the business not on who they date (or don’t date). But, federal law isn’t clear and right now, LGBTQ people only have clear protections in place in
It’s 2019, so you would think that everyone knows that companies cannot make hiring decisions based on race or sex, but it’s also 2019 so the whole world has gone crazy. So, I wasn’t entirely shocked when a friend sent me this job posting at Ashburn, Virginia-based recruiting firm Cynet Systems:
Remember when Amazon scrapped its artificial intelligence program for recruiting because it was biased against women? That wasn’t the end of computer decision making for Amazon. The Verge uncovered documents from Amazon showing that they use computers to warn and fire warehouse workers based on productivity. While I’ll argue all day that
Some people dismiss certain “types”of job candidates out of hand, regardless of skills, experience or potential. If you don’t fit their idea of what an employee should be like, you’re rejected. This is, of course, illegal in the case of race, religion, disability and a few other things,
My first non-babysitting job (I started babysitting for the neighbors at 11) was fast food; so was my second. I’ve worked retail, been an administrative assistant, taught LSAT prep, sold truck bumpers and trained people to use SAP. I’ve run numbers, and I’ve fired people, I’ve coached managers, and written countless articles.
Last November, thousands of Google Employees participated in a walkout to protest everything from forced arbitration to transparency in sexual harassment investigations. Google listened and granted much of what the protesters asked for. So why are the organizers, upset and in the news again? Retaliation. Illegal retaliation happens when you punish
Unconscious bias sneaks up on you. In medicine, it can be deadly, but in other fields, it can kill careers. We’ve long known that university students favor male professors and rate them higher than female professors. While you can argue that overall men tend to be better professors than women,
Federal law requires that you provide breastfeeding moms a room with a locking door–that is not a bathroom–to pump breast milk up until the baby’s first birthday. This is pretty easy in a big office building with lots of space, but not so easy in a firehouse. The law,
Prince Harry lost his mother at a young age after his parents went through a very dirty and public divorce. He suffered from depression and, fortunately, received therapy that helped him. As a result, he and his brother and sister-in-law, The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, launched Heads Together in 2017
