Newer work biases on the rise.
NEW DELHI: Discrimination in the workplace is on the rise globally, says a report by the International Labour Organisation (ILO) which was released by labour minister Oscar Fernandes on Thursday. The report adds that with the Indian economy growing, newer types of work discrimination, based on gender and age,...

Bad touch.
Six YEARS after Richard Reid tried to blow up a flight from Paris to Miami by igniting plastic explosives in his sneakers, American travelers are still removing their shoes before walking through the metal detector at the airport. But as of last August, they are free from another rule...

Govt sets sail on minority course.
NEW DELHI: Moving forward on its 'minority agenda', the Centre on Friday laid out the official guidelines for improving the share of Muslims in employment in "90 identified minority concentration districts, which are backward in terms of various developmental parameters". This was part of the 15-point follow-up action plan...

Pluralism, politics and God: protecting freedom while avoiding harm.
After my freshman year in college, I took a memorable bus trip from Bethlehem, Pa., to Montreal to visit the 1967 World's Fair. A friend and I stayed in a motel that seemed to be constructed out of wood only slightly stronger than corrugated cardboard and arguably less stable...

Religious discrimination: employee was offered reasonable accommodation.
The US Circuit Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit ruled recently that a healthcare facility did offer reasonable accommodation and thus did not commit religious discrimination. The facility refused to allow a unit secretary always to have Fridays and Saturdays off from her 3:00 p.m. to...

Head start bill passed without 'faith-based' bias.
Congress has turned away efforts to remove civil rights protections from a bill reauthorizing Head Start, the popular preschool program that helps low-income families prepare their children for school. In November, the U.S. Senate passed the Head Start reauthorization 95-0, following House passage earlier in the year....

House OKs birth control coverage.
Byline: David Steves The Register-Guard SALEM - The Oregon House on Thursday ended its 14-year holdout against mandating health insurance coverage of birth control prescriptions. The chamber voted 49-9 for a bill that requires such coverage for all insurance plans that help pay for other...

The Supreme Court's Burlington decision: implications for the health care workplace.
Physician executives in all sectors of health care industry must have a thorough understanding of a dizzying array of both federal and state employment statutes. One of the most significant as well as complex employment laws is Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Needless...

Initial salary recommendations for athletes versus nonathletes utilizing role congruity theory.
Despite some progress towards parity in pay, the continued salary gap between men and women persists (Fuller & Schoenberger, 1991; Gasser, Flint, & Tan, 2000; Graham, Hotchkiss, Gerhart, 2000). Despite the passage of The Equal Pay Act of 1963 to prohibit wage based discrimination for men and women who...

Gonzales's SBC speech irks church-state experts.
Attorney General Alberto Gonzales's decision to launch a new Justice Department "First Freedom Project" during a recent meeting of Southern Baptist leaders riled a number of advocates of church-state separation. "Nothing defines us more as a nation and differentiates us more from the extremists who are our...