Workplace Buzz: Today’s Headlines

Workplace Buzz on November 12, 2007 7:13 AM

Workplace Discrimination Banned
The U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill banning workplace discrimination against gays. An array of Jewish groups backed the Employment Non-Discrimination Act, which passed late Wednesday by a vote of 235-184. They included the Anti-Defamation League, the American Jewish Committee, the National Council of Jewish Women, the Reform movement and the Jewish Council for Public Affairs. Jewish Telegraphic Agency

Gender-Related Negotiation
It was this scholarly perspective that occasioned “Gender and Negotiation,” a two-day conference last week (Nov. 1-2) in the Peter and Isabel Malkin Penthouse at the John F. Kennedy School of Government. Co-sponsors included the Kennedy School’s Women and Public Policy Program, the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School, and the Center for Gender in Organizations at the Simmons School of Management. Harvard University Gazette

Muslim Women and the Workplace
Women in predominantly Muslim countries are struggling to compete for jobs, win equal pay and hold political office, falling behind the rest of the world in eliminating discrimination, a report said Thursday. Nordic nations, by contrast, received the best overall grades for gender parity in education, employment, health and politics, according to the review of 128 countries compiled by the World Economic Forum. The United States received mixed marks. SignonSandieago.com

Comments (2)

Unbelievable! So all of these well known Jewish groups have pushed into being a law that would stop discrimination against gays in the workplace.
This is, of course, a good law as no one should have to bear discrimination.
But it is also well known that these same Jewish groups push laws into being that would hurt the American people, namely: an overabundance of monies to Israel from the pockets of Americans.
These same groups are pro-Israel, but in sending arms and dollars to Israel that end up hurting the Palestinians and destroying their homes and properties, then, why are these Jewish groups helping to foster diversity in America, when there is no diversity being acted out in Israel! Check into their laws. Arabs cannot build homes; no Jew is allowed to marry a non-Jew, especially an Arab, and more.
So, what is their real motivation here?

— Posted by Carol Bradford | November 13, 2007 6:14 AM | Comment Permalink

My first thought... the more things change, the more things stay the same.

Linda M. Lopeke
http://www.smartstartcoach.com

— Posted by linda m lopeke | November 12, 2007 11:21 PM | Comment Permalink

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