First, it’s difficult for an individual employee to use the NLRA as a shield because its purpose was related to unionization. Even if workers collectively take action, and win, the remedies offered by the law [...]

The Reference Shelf A Bloomberg Businessweek op-ed makes the case that paid family leave is good for business. An Albany Business Review article examines the arguments made against it. An Atlantic  article on the paid [...]

Forty-five percent of those surveyed said they work while sick because they can’t afford to lose the money -- a phenomenon Ziebarth and his co-author call “contagious presenteeism.” Sick people come to work and infect their [...]

The pay gap was actually shrinking in the second quarter of 2014, but "that was largely because male earnings were weak — declining in five quarters between 2010 and 2014 — and women mostly saw modest gains." The Institute [...]

3. EQUAL PAY FOR WOMEN California passed an unusually strict equal-pay act last month, requiring that women and men within the same company be paid the same for doing "substantially similar" work, even if they [...]

The outlook of the millennials surveyed could be chalked up to youthful optimism, but these young women weren't naively unaware of the challenges they face -- four in every 10 women saw the gender wage gap as a [...]