In a stunning show of solidarity beginning last year, employees at fast-food establishments in cities across the nation took to the streets to demonstrate their unfair working conditions. Protests include demands to double their wages as well as be provided with...
As this week marks a half-century since Martin Luther King Jr. made his "I Have a Dream" speech from the Lincoln Memorial during a march on Washington, people are still questioning the nation's progress against discrimination and racism. This year, our nation's first...
The American Medical Association passed Resolution 420 in June of this year. This officially recognizes obesity as a disease plaguing more than one-third of Americans. There are several nuances of "obesity," including morbid obesity, or those individuals who are more...
An advertising campaign hawking a brand of cigarettes from at least a decade past gave kudos to women saying, you've come a long way, baby. According to one fashion designer in New York City, nothing could be further from the truth. The issue behind the brouhaha is...
A new form of slavery is on the rise in the American economy. It dates back to the 1880s period of reconstruction when the nation first saw a surplus of non-white labor. Amidst a pervading climate of separate but equal, many freed slaves worked to integrate themselves...
Is the modern working woman as ambitious as her male counterpart? Recent studies indicate the answer may be no. Citing reasons such as in-house inequality, family-work schedules and general bias, many believe that women simply do not figure in key leadership roles as...
A young fashion designer who attended the New School for Design and worked for Chanel in New York is fighting back on the issue of workplace discrimination. The woman's dream job came through when she landed a position with Prada in 2009. Though she had the chance to...
A recent court decision seems to be disputing the fact that bigger is better. A Superior Court judge ruled in favor of a New Jersey casino's claims that weight restrictions can be legally enforced among its cocktail waitresses. While other forms of workplace...
A 50-year-old immigrant from the Dominican Republic has sued the Grant Hyatt Hotel of New York over claims of sexual harassment. The lawsuit was filed in Manhattan Supreme Court on Monday and also charges her union and the New York Hotel and Motel Trades Council,...
