Workplace Buzz: Today's Headlines

Workplace Buzz on September 24, 2007 7:14 AM

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College women on the brink of graduation may be in for a rude awakening. While they have enjoyed majority status on campus and graduate with higher grade-point averages than their male classmates, young women still conspicuously lag in one crucial area: income earnings immediately after graduation. Newsreview.com

A Need for a Supportive Workplace
Members of a local cancer support group are rooting for ABC's "Good Morning America" anchor Robin Roberts, who remains on the job while battling breast cancer. They only wish everyone had the same resources and support as Roberts, who credits her employer and co-workers with making a tough time easier. "I wish it was like that for everyone," said a 47-year-old Swartz Creek woman who attends breast cancer support group meetings sponsored by McLaren Regional Medical Center. Mlive.com

Legislation Looking at Workplace Bullying
In a coast-to-coast conference call Saturday a national expert on bullying in the workplace defended recently introduced legislation designed to address that very issue. Speaking to a near-empty meeting room in the Statehouse, Dr. Gary Namie, founder of the Workplace Bullying Institute in Bellingham, Wash., said passage of the "Healthy Workplace Bill" would make Vermont a better place to work. Rep. Leo Valliere, R-Washington, is sponsoring bill H.548 in the state Legislature. "The goal is to get employers to do voluntarily what they should be doing now," Namie said, trumpeting the results of a recent interactive poll conducted by Zogby International. TimesArgus.com

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