Written by Tracey de Morsella on 05-01-2007
According to a new study released by Nationwide Financial (NYSE: NFS), 73 percent of African-American males say they were driven into retirement by factors beyond their control, compared to 33 percent of the general population. This number represents retirees who say they had to retire when they did due to illness, disability, company closing, or for another reason beyond their control. From the same study, the percentage for African-American females was 28 percent, compared to 37 percent for females of the general population. The Nationwide Retirement Decisions Study, conducted with Mathew Greenwald & Associates, covered people with household incomes of at least $40,000 a year. The survey also found that most African-Americans expect to retire between the ages of 55 and 65, compared to 57 and 66 for the general population.
Written by Tracey de Morsella on 02-28-2007
David Cohen, President of DCI Consulting Group, Inc., has announced the formation of a new national nonprofit employer association dedicated to promoting proactive affirmative action and equal employment regulatory compliance to create diverse organizations free from workplace bias. Patricia A. Schaeffer, DCI’s Vice President-Regulatory Affairs, will head the association known as “The Center for Corporate Equality.”
Written by Tracey de Morsella on 02-23-2007
A new study by a Vanderbilt University professor of law and economics found legal immigrants in the United States with a lighter skin tone made more money than those with darker skin.
Written by Tracey de Morsella on 02-16-2007
Target Corporation, the Minneapolis-based retail sales giant, has agreed to pay $775,000 to a group of black workers as part of a litigation settlement of a race discrimination and retaliation case brought by U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency announced today. The settlement also includes employer training and other remedial relief.
Written by Tracey de Morsella on 02-15-2007
AK Steel Corporation will pay $600,000 to settle a racial harassment lawsuit brought by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the agency announced today. The EEOC had charged that the Fortune 500 company violated federal law at its Butler, Pa., facility by creating and condoning a racially hostile work environment for a group of African American employees, which included widespread racist and threatening displays for years.According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, the hostile work environment has included, since at least 2000, racially graphic graffiti, the displaying of nooses and swastikas in work areas open to African American employees, racial slurs and epithets, the open display of Ku Klux Klan videos in employee lounge areas and the circulation of Populist Party literature where the party candidate, David Duke, is a known KKK leader. Some of the graffiti contained direct or implied threats to African Americans, such as a message to “kill” them and a picture of bullets coming out of a gun accompanied by a threatening insult toward blacks. There was also a good deal of Nazi graffiti, including “I ♥ Adolf.”
Written by Tracey de Morsella on 02-14-2007
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) last year received a total of 75,768 discrimination charges against private sector employers, the first increase in charge filings since 2002, the federal agency reported today as part of its Fiscal Year 2006 data.The year-end statistics, available online at http://www.eeoc.gov/stats/enforcement.html, show that charges based on race (27,238), sex (23,247), and retaliation (22,555) were the most frequent allegations, as in past years. Other frequently cited charge bases were disability (15,625), age (13,569), national origin (8,327), and religion (2,541). All charge categories edged up from FY 2005, with the exception of age and equal pay. Individuals may allege multiple types of discrimination in a single charge filing.
Written by Greg Roper on 02-12-2007
You are the staffing manager and you have spent countless hours and energy trying to fill key positions in your organization. Your charge has been to actively seek out minorities and women for different positions in the hopes of increasing the diversity within the organization. You have accomplished your tasks and everything seems okay. Your candidate gets on board, things seem to be going well and all of the sudden you receive a message that your candidate has resigned from the organization. You wonder why?
Written by Tracey de Morsella on 12-22-2006
Giving same-sex couples marriage rights will be good for the economy, according to a new study, The Effect of Marriage Equality and Domestic Partnership On Business and the Economy,” from UCLA’s Williams Institute. The study documents gains to businesses from happier and healthier workers that would outweigh new costs for benefits. The economy would also gain from the positive effect of equality on state government budgets.
Written by Tracey de Morsella on 12-14-2006
As the baby boomer generation moves towards retirement there are insufficient younger workers to take their place, let alone satisfy the requirements of a growing economy for more labour and different skills. Couple that with the regulatory imperative for UK Age Regulations compliance and it seems pretty obvious that tapping into—rather than shying away from—the older worker talent pool is the smarter strategy.Taleo has partnered with The Age and Employment Network (TAEN) on a paper that digs deeper into these issues and provides practical strategies for organisations to recruit older talent into their workforce.
Written by Tracey de Morsella on 12-12-2006
A new national Work Trends survey published by the John J. Heldrich Center for Workforce Development finds that nearly 7 in 10 American workers plan to continue to work full- or part-time for pay following retirement from their main job. Another 14% plan to work as volunteers, while only 13% expect to stop working entirely. This new report, based on a poll of 800 American workers between May and mid-June 2005, also finds that older workers believe they are treated unfairly by employers, and also raises workers’ concerns about the financial soundness of Social Security and Medicare.
Written by Dave Pallone on 12-06-2006
On November 30, 1988, at 11:30 in the morning, I learned what diversity truly meant. On that day and time, Major League Baseball fired me as a National League Umpire because of my sexual orientation. I never thought growing up that I could ever be discriminated against. I was a white male, somewhat middle class and longed for a career in professional baseball. When my dream came true at the age of nineteen, I was working as an umpire in professional baseball. My ultimate goal was achieved in 1979, when I became a major league umpire. It was hard to believe I wasn’t dreaming.
Written by Tracey de Morsella on 12-04-2006
Two studies released on October 11, National Coming Out Day show that more Americans are becoming personally acquainted with gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people, and thereby are also increasingly becoming more supportive of equality. These two new studies quantify the GLBT march for equality moving in a direction of increased support for equal rights under the law as more GLBT Americans live their lives more openly
Written by Chris de Morsella on 11-30-2006
The Daily Free Press, the student newspaper at Boston University, recently ran an article covering the activities of a Republican student group that was seeking to draw attention to what they call the “worst form of bigotry confronting America today,” Boston University’s College Republicans are circulating an application for a “Caucasian Achievement and Recognition Scholarship” that requires applicants be at least 25 percent Caucasian.
Written by Tracey de Morsella on 11-26-2006
Organisations still have a long way to go to eliminate age discrimination at work and become fully compliant with the recent UK legislation, according to the latest findings from the Recruitment Confidence Index (RCI), produced by Cranfield School of Management.
Written by Tracey de Morsella on 11-24-2006
71.9 percent of IT professionals believe ageism is more prevalent in the technology sector than in other industries and over half (50.6 percent) believe their search for work has been hindered because they were too old. Despite that, over one third (37.8 percent) are not aware of the new legislation that now outlaws ageism in the workplace. These are the findings of major new research carried out by online recruitment specialist, The IT Job Board.
Written by Tracey de Morsella on 11-17-2006
Last month The Employment Equality (Age) Regulations 2006 in the UK was introduced. The regulations ban age discrimination relating to recruitment, promotion and training; ban unjustified retirement ages of below 65 and remove the current age limit for unfair dismissal and redundancy rights. While these new laws only apply to the UK, their introduction is being watched closely by other European nations.Which country leads the way when it comes to a balanced view on age, and what country is most likely to discriminate against younger workers? According to the results of a recent poll by Monster, Norwegians lead the way in terms of a balanced view, and Germans observed the highest percentage of discrimination against older workers when looking for new recruits.
Written by Tracey de Morsella on 11-09-2006
The following is from a discussion thread that took place on October 2, 2006 oon RECNET, which is a listserv for recruiters provided by Recruiters Network in which the author, Andre Perman, raises the question of whether or not fellow recruiters select candidates based on ethnic indicators they might get from their names.
Written by Tracey de Morsella on 11-08-2006
I wanted to give you my extensive analysis of how I think the elections will impact diversity and affirmative action. Unfortunately, I’m moving in nine days and I find doing so, with the “help” of my three-year-old daughter Kira, extremely challenging. So, I’m going to post some thoughts and over the course of the next month, solicit the thoughts of others and report back to you.
Written by Tracey de Morsella on 11-08-2006
A new international workplace survey carried out by employment agency Kelly Services sought the views of about 70000 people in 28 countries. The survey found that when applying for a job in the last 5 years, 44% of those interviewed in the US felt they were discriminated against. Age groups over 45 years old were above this average.
Written by Tracey de Morsella on 11-06-2006
This week is Anti-Racist Workplace Week, which runs from November 6 to 12. Anti-Racist Workplace Week is an initiative taking place simultaneously in Ireland and Northern Ireland. It reflects a commitment in the National Agreement ‘Towards 2016′ that ‘racism in the workplace will be proactively addressed in the context of the Anti Racist Workplace Week in keeping with best international practice in this area‘.
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