Work/Life/Law 3.0

The final presentation got me thinking about this. I have actual been to a factory in Juarez, I went in the summer of 2006. Family friends o...

And so goes another semester of blogging on the Work/Life/Law Blog. Have a good summer.

I promise I will stop talking about Minority Programs, but I am really interested and curious to see what everyone thinks about them...espec...

Looking back at the topics we discussed this semester, Implicit Associations Test (IAT) was the most interesting for me. Actually in my LAM...

I felt the fruits of my labor come into play the other day when I received a letter in the mail from my soon-to-be employer. It was a summ...

Hey everyone. Sorry I've been M.I.A. for so long; as I'm sure you all are aware, these last few weeks have been incredibly hectic to...

I ran across an article today that discussed how bringing children to work helps balance the work/life conflict that many employees face tod...

A topic that we might not focus on too much here in the Midwest is that of illegal immigrants, which is a major problem in Western states su...

RFID tags have been extremely valuable as a business aspect. They provide a faster, more accurate, and reliable way to track production, shi...

So I've continued to read about these RFID chips since my group's presentation on Monday. After some more recreational research, it...

The discussion in class of surveillance in the UK reminded me of an incident that happened in London a few years ago.  In 2005, a man from B...

In todays presentation, I think it was Aubrey who mentioned that India was the only country that had not signed an agreement against the wor...

Hey all! The presentation on child labor reminded me of a discussion I had in another class. It is not directly related to employment law, b...

Since a few people seemed interested in the DNA Database during our presentation today, I found this article , which highlights the errors f...

In our presentation concerning employment privacy, more specifically employee monitoring, I touched on how employers have the ability to mon...

After our class discussion about work/life balance I was talking to my parents about it. They informed me that Cincinnati passed a law that...

As we enter into the final weeks of the semester, and, for some of us, the final weeks of our tenure at IU, I thought it would be fitting to...

I found the Tuesday presentation by Buff, Aaron, and Sarah over vacation discrepancies in different countries extremely interesting. I neve...

The past few classes have really gotten me thinking about work/life balance. I recently read an article that was giving tips to IT professio...

I was giving some more thought to the discussion we had in class on maintaining a work/life balance. The conversation was really interesti...

I forgot all about a story that I heard a couple of weeks ago during March Madness. It was about the mens basketball coach at Tennessee, Br...

As the last and final post in this series, I would like to acknowledge the counterarguments that are often advanced against making body siz...

Someone mentioned in class today about their problem with work activities because you are actually spending your off time with co-workers. ...

I found class today to be extremely interesting and it raised important issues. It was apparent that individuals were persuaded on whether ...

I decided to google Title VII and Indiana University in the news and to my amazement I found this case ! Judith Klein was a psychiatrist tha...

In class the other day we talked a lot about the labor market at the macroeconomic level. A comparison was made between raising the minimum...

After class on Monday, I started thinking about how our campus tries to promote diversity. I thought of all the different multicultural clu...

Another reason I believe that body size should be a protected characteristic is because it is unlike religion or sexual orientation, which c...

Last week in one of my other classes we watched a video about people who had been convicted of crimes, had spent extended periods of time in...

Back to the issue of privacy and the grocery discount cards that we talked about earlier in the semester. So, on Tuesday, April Fools Day, ...

I came across this article talking about all the maintenace problems with commercial airliners. Found it interesting how these workers expe...

Today in class, we spent some time arguing about when stray remarks should or shouldn't be taken into legal consideration. It appears to...

There have been a few posts regarding height and weight discrimination in the workplace in response to the bill that Massachusetts State Rep...

When we had our class discussion about religious discrimination, I remembered a case that my dad had discussed with me about a woman being b...

My mind has sparked a flare of inquisitiveness after Reading the previous blog “The Case for Weight (part 1),” concerning prohibiting body w...

I know Ashley's post began to touch on this, but I wanted to make a case that body size should be a protected characteristic under Title...

I don't think we cover size discrimination in class this semester, so I thought maybe this would be good for the blog. I came across an...

I was really intrigued by the case we are to have read for Monday entitled “ Mason v. Avaya Communications, Inc .” While I agreed with the...

I came across this horrific story on CNN earlier today: http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/03/25/walmart.insurance.battle/index.html I, as I am sure...

Many of you probably know about the acquisition of Bear Stearns by JP Morgan. What is not being discussed is the impact this is going to ...

I was recently informed that Dickie Scruggs, a famous lawyer, has pleaded guilty for bribing a judge. For those of you that don't know,...

In an attempt to respond to Ashley and Katie's blog posts about the doll experiments, I stumbled upon some very interesting studies abou...

While Brad has briefly touched on this subject in his post, there seems to be a lot more involved in the debate about psychology and law. I...

In Monday's class we had a great discussion regarding whether Psychological tests, factors, and influences should be taken into legal co...

Here is the link to the post on The Situationist Blog that contains Kiri Davis's video "A Girl Like Me," which we watched in...

Class today got me thinking about the doll experiment that was presented in the YouTube clip. I was afraid this post might come off the wro...

I came across two articles: This one is from Financial Week This one is from Daily News These articles discuss how employers are starting to...

I apologize if everyone is through with discussing Oleanna. I hate being the one to admit this and hope that no one find me “shallow” for i...

Check out the details here . It covers employers of 25 or more employees and requires them "to provide a private place for an employee ...

My friend ran into this particular situation and we could not find any information on a result. I was curious what others thought about how ...

I was reading the IDS last week and came across a really interesting article about some new monitoring software that Microsoft is in the mid...

An acquaintance of mine was telling me a story about his company and discrimination. I'm not sure if there will be any comments but I w...