http://employmentlawpost.com/diversity Diversity Insight: Strategies for building a diverse, multi-cultural workplace Mon, 15 Feb 2010 03:11:16 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en By Claudia N. Lombardo It's hard to believe there was a day when nonnative English-speaking parents disapproved of their children learning any language other than English. Today, many parents embrace foreign languages as a stepping stone to their children's economic success. That's because businesses often prosper from employing bilingual and ... http://employmentlawpost.com/diversity/2010/02/14/language-of-prosperity-multilingual-employees/ By Jennifer Barrera The Commission on the Status of Women is a state agency founded in 1965 to study issues affecting women and to advise the California Legislature and state agencies on inequities in laws, practices, and conditions that affect women. The commission asked the California attorney general to respond ... http://employmentlawpost.com/diversity/2010/02/14/outed-vets-get-benefits-for-california-domestic-partners/ The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has announced that Outback Steakhouse has agreed to pay $19 million and furnish significant remedial relief to settle a major class-action lawsuit alleging sex discrimination against thousands of women at hundreds of its corporately owned restaurants nationwide. According to the EEOC, Outback discriminated against female ... http://employmentlawpost.com/diversity/2010/02/14/outback-to-pay-19-million-for-sex-bias/ National Women’s History Month’s roots go back to March 8, 1857, when women from New York City factories staged a protest over working conditions. International Women’s Day was first observed in 1909, but it wasn’t until 1981 that Congress established National Women’s History Week to be commemorated the second week ... http://employmentlawpost.com/diversity/2010/02/14/womens-history-month-march-2010/ According to a report released in November by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), African American and Hispanic workers were hit particularly hard during the first year of the current recession. The report notes that while “the overall labor market conditions deteriorated markedly in 2008 following the onset of the ... http://employmentlawpost.com/diversity/2010/01/17/recession-hard-on-black-hispanic-job-hunters/ Boston-native Christine M. Griffin has taken over the number two spot at the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM). One of her top tasks will be to help OPM Director John Berry increase the diversity of the federal government, which he has called one of his top long-term goals. Before being ... http://employmentlawpost.com/diversity/2010/01/17/diversity-a-goal-for-new-opm-deputy-director/ For the third year, the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) teamed up with Winning Workplaces to create its list of Top Small Workplaces for 2009. As the article notes, when faced with tough economic times, many employers try to cut just about everything that may be considered nonessential, including employee benefits, ... http://employmentlawpost.com/diversity/2010/01/17/employer-shining-beacon-during-economic-slump/ On December14, 2009, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) announced a class-action settlement with national restaurant chain Bahama Breeze for $1.26 million and significant remedial relief. The case originated with 37 black workers at the company’s Beachwood, Ohio, location who claimed they were repeatedly harassed because of their race. In the ... http://employmentlawpost.com/diversity/2010/01/17/bahama-breeze-pays-126-million-for-race-claim/ M. Lee Smith Publishers' President Dan Oswald comments on the generational divide that most companies are experiencing in relation to technology and offers five tips for how employers can harness the know-how and insight of their younger employees. I recently handed a newspaper column written by Financial Times columnist Luke Johnson ... http://employmentlawpost.com/diversity/2009/12/13/tap-into-generational-it-insight/ Employment law attorney Robert P. Tinnin, Jr. tackles the tough question of whether an employer can implement an"English-only" policy. Q A couple moved to Taos, New Mexico, from Abilene, Texas, last summer and purchased a deteriorating old motel, hoping to rehab it as they've done with several other properties. According to ... http://employmentlawpost.com/diversity/2009/12/13/english-only-lessons-from-a-taos-motel/