The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission's new guidelines addressing national origin discrimination define "national origin group" in terms that include common ancestry, language, race or culture. In fiscal 2015, about 11% of private-sector charges filed with the EEOC made allegations of national origin discrimination.
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Facebook will soon test job postings that can be programmed to be shown to certain users based on educational or geographical qualifications and other criteria. Facebook may also soon add a job tab on company pages, allowing users to easily seek out new opportunities.
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Employees of Washington Electric Co-op have grown a work garden since 2015, helping them to get outside and exercise while using the produce for shared lunches and seminars on cooking and nutrition. The garden is funded by a Green Thumbs at Work grant from the Vermont Department of Health and Vermont Community Garden Network.
A reputation for being bossy can derail a management career, writes Cathleen Clerkin of the Center for Creative Leadership. Clerkin offers suggestions for losing this label, including listening to other perspectives and not bulldozing team members when making decisions.
Candidates should not mention future plans, such as starting a business or going back to school, or offer to take a lower salary before a job offer is made, career expert Liz Ryan advises. In this blog post, she offers several things candidates should avoid saying before having an offer in hand.
Jodi Goldstein of Harvard Innovation Labs admits she is more of a hands-on manager than she should be. Nevertheless, "I've grown to be a fairly decent leader because I can articulate the mission and rally the troops, and give them an amazing amount of autonomy on how to get there," she says.
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