Workplace Buzz: Today's Headlines

Workplace Buzz on October 4, 2007 7:14 AM

Religion at the Office
What if your religion required you to wear a beard but your employer has a no-facial-hair policy for all its delivery drivers? What if your religion required you to pray every day at sunset, but your job on a factory line made it difficult to take a break during your shift? What if your religion required you to shun violence but your job entailed doing tech support for a client that makes violent computer games? MSNBC.com

Female Doctors’ Balancing Act
It wasn't that Deborah L. Pierce, DO, didn't like being the associate residency director of the emergency medicine residency program at Philadelphia's Albert Einstein Medical Center. She did. Indeed, she had hoped to direct the program someday. But with two young children at home, she was facing a dilemma all too common among female physicians: How best to balance career and family. American Medical News

A Computer and Crib
In today's economy, two-income families are a must for many households. But some first-time parents aren't facing the daycare dilemma, they're taking the baby to work instead. Rather than offer childcare assistance or on-site daycare, they're welcoming new parents and their infants back into the workplace. CBNNews.com

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