News tagged with male employees


Dad's overworked and tired while mom's potentially fired

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Jun 16, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

If dad looks exhausted this Father's Day it could be due to his job, suggests new research that found many male employees are now pressured to work up to 40 hours of overtime—often unpaid— per week to stay competitive.





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Dell settles federal discrimination suit for $9.1M

Technology / Business

created Jul 25, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(AP) -- Dell Inc. said Friday it has agreed to settle a federal gender-discrimination class action lawsuit brought by former employees for $9.1 million.


Wage gap linked to customer bias

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Jun 03, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 3

Researchers have helped solve the mystery of why white men continue to earn 25 percent more than equally well-performing women and minorities. Managers and business owners must pay a premium for white male employees because ...


Going to Work When Sick May Lead to Future Absences

Medicine & Health / Health

created Jun 10, 2009 | popularity 2 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Employees who often go to work despite feeling sick have higher rates of future work absences due to illness, according to a study in the June Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, official publication of the ...


Male enhancements raise red flags

Medicine & Health / Other

created Jan 23, 2008 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (7) | comments 0

Health risks posed by so-called "male enhancement" supplements are many, experts say.


Poor leadership poses a health risk at work

Medicine & Health / Health

created Nov 02, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 1

Perceived poor managerial leadership increases not only the amount of sick leave taken at a workplace, but also the risk of sickness amongst employees later on in life. The longer a person has had a "poorer" manager, the ...


Women experience more sexual harassment in work groups with male, female balance

Other Sciences / Other

created Nov 12, 2008 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Despite common assumptions, new research suggests that women are not more likely to be sexually harassed when they are the minority or majority in a work group. Instead, researchers found that in most cases, women were sexually ...


Bosses exaggerate women's family-work conflict

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Nov 18, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Decades into the era of two-earner households, the virtues of family-friendly policies are all but universally assumed in the corporate world. But now new research suggests serious potential pitfalls for ...


Cost-cutting Yahoo to close offices for holidays

Technology / Business

created Dec 22, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- Yahoo says it will close its offices from Christmas through New Year's to help save money. The cost-cutting move ends a year in which Yahoo's revenue declined for the first time since 2001.


Finnish technology workers warn of strike

Technology / Business

created Nov 16, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- Some 2,000 employees in Finland's technology sector will begin a strike in two weeks time if no agreement is reached in labor talks with company managers, union leaders said Wednesday.


Recession? What recession? Unionization up on state, local levels

Other Sciences / Economics

created Sep 07, 2009 | popularity 2.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Against all odds, organized labor managed to make new inroads during the economic upheaval of the past year, new findings from UCLA's Institute for Research on Labor and Employment (IRLE) suggest.



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