<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Employment Discrimination: News &amp; Videos about Employment Discrimination - CNN.com</title><link>http://topics.cnn.com/topics/feeds/rss/Employment_Discrimination</link><description>Find stories, videos, and photos about Employment Discrimination from CNN.com.</description><language>en-us</language><copyright>Cable News Network LP, LLLP.</copyright><pubDate>Thu, 26 Nov 2009 06:31:26 GMT</pubDate><ttl>5</ttl><image><title>Employment Discrimination: News &amp; Videos about Employment Discrimination - CNN.com</title><url>http://i.cdn.turner.com/cnn/.element/img/1.0/logo/cnn.logo.rss.gif</url><link>http://topics.cnn.com/topics/feeds/rss/Employment_Discrimination</link><width>144</width><height>33</height><description>Find stories, videos, and photos about Employment Discrimination from CNN.com.</description></image><item><title>New Haven firefighters in discrimination case get promotions</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/11/25/new.haven.firefighters/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/11/25/new.haven.firefighters/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>The city of New Haven, Connecticut, will promote 14 firefighters who were involved in a workplace discrimination case that worked its way to the U.S. Supreme Court.</description><pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 19:05:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Feds: Steakhouse chain to settle sex discrimination suit for $1 million</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/11/02/california.discrimination.suit/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/11/02/california.discrimination.suit/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Lawry's, a California-based chain of high-end steakhouses, has agreed to pay more than $1 million to settle a sex-discrimination lawsuit that claimed it only hired women to wait on tables.</description><pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 02:51:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Judge rules FDNY exams discriminated against minorities</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/07/22/firefighter.discrimination/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/07/22/firefighter.discrimination/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>A federal judge ruled Wednesday that the New York City Fire Department used recruitment exams that discriminated against African-American and Hispanic applicants.</description><pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2009 02:50:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Justice Ginsburg ready to welcome Sotomayor</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/06/16/sotomayor.ginsburg/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/06/16/sotomayor.ginsburg/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>While most sitting Supreme Court justices refuse to comment about current and future nominees to that bench, one member says she can't wait to welcome Judge Sonia Sotomayor to that exclusive club.</description><pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2009 00:16:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>What would Sotomayor mean for business?</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/2009/05/27/news/sotomayor.biz.fortune/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/2009/05/27/news/sotomayor.biz.fortune/index.htm</guid><description>If there had been a secret-ballot vote among appellate lawyers who argue business cases, it is most unlikely that Judge Sonia Sotomayor would have been selected as the one to replace Justice David Souter on the U.S. Supreme Court - even from among the reported finalists on President Obama's short-list.</description><pubDate>Wed, 27 May 2009 17:50:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Supreme Court issues setback for female workers</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/05/18/scotus.pregnancy.leave/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/05/18/scotus.pregnancy.leave/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Decades-old time off given women for pregnancy leave cannot be counted when deciding pension eligibility, the Supreme Court decided Monday.</description><pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2009 16:59:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>High court ruling setback for female workers</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/2009/05/18/news/supreme_court_pregnancy/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/2009/05/18/news/supreme_court_pregnancy/index.htm</guid><description>Decades-old time off given women for pregnancy leave cannot be counted when deciding pension eligibility, the Supreme Court decided Monday.</description><pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2009 18:00:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>When a staffer switches genders</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/2009/04/27/smallbusiness/workplace_tolerance.fsb/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/2009/04/27/smallbusiness/workplace_tolerance.fsb/index.htm</guid><description>Tony Ferraiolo will never forget his first day back at work after surgery. The 46-year-old supervisor's knees trembled as he entered the windowless headquarters of Madison Co., a switch and sensor manufacturer in Branford, Conn.</description><pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2009 17:33:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Obama's first law: The fight for fair pay</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/2009/02/02/smallbusiness/fair_pay_act.smb/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/2009/02/02/smallbusiness/fair_pay_act.smb/index.htm</guid><description>The issue of compensating your employees just got a bit trickier.</description><pubDate>Mon, 02 Feb 2009 17:25:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Day of vindication for grandma as pay law signed</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/01/29/obama.fair.pay/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/01/29/obama.fair.pay/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>For Lilly Ledbetter, it was a day of vindication over a decade in the making.</description><pubDate>Fri, 30 Jan 2009 06:05:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>House passes act to make pay-discrimination suits easier</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/01/27/pay.equity/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/01/27/pay.equity/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>The House of Representatives on Tuesday passed a bill that would make suing for pay discrimination easier by altering a time limit on such suits.</description><pubDate>Wed, 28 Jan 2009 02:58:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Laid off at 50: What next?</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/2008/12/08/pf/laidoff_atfifty.moneymag/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/2008/12/08/pf/laidoff_atfifty.moneymag/index.htm</guid><description>Jerry Prine has always been a successful guy, rising to senior marketing executive at Wang Labs and the Harris Corp. before helping to launch a wireless start-up. His wife Lisa never had to work; he has nearly paid off their $500,000 house in Atlanta and put both his daughters through private colleges.</description><pubDate>Thu, 11 Dec 2008 15:46:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Pregnant Women Still Face Job Discrimination</title><link>http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1855441,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</link><guid>http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1855441,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</guid><description>On the 30th Anniversary of the Pregnancy Discrimination Act, a new report shows there's still plenty of bias in the workplace against moms-to-be</description><pubDate>Fri, 31 Oct 2008 17:00:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>4 Former Dell Managers Claim Discrimination</title><link>http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1854855,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</link><guid>http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1854855,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</guid><description>Four former human-resources managers at Dell Inc. are suing the computer company, accusing it of widespread gender and age discrimination</description><pubDate>Thu, 30 Oct 2008 02:00:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>McCain calls for $300 million prize for better car battery</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/06/23/campaign.wrap/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/06/23/campaign.wrap/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Sen. John McCain on Monday called for a $300 million prize to whoever can develop a battery that will "leapfrog" the abilities of current hybrid and electric cars.</description><pubDate>Tue, 24 Jun 2008 11:09:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Bush Signs Genetic Discrimination Bill</title><link>http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1808404,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</link><guid>http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1808404,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</guid><description>President Bush on Wednesday signed legislation to protect people
  from losing their jobs or health insurance when genetic testing
  reveals they are susceptible to costly diseases</description><pubDate>Wed, 21 May 2008 22:00:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Coming Clean on Worker Salaries</title><link>http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1737684,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</link><guid>http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1737684,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</guid><description>Not knowing what your colleagues make can hurt you. A modest proposal for closing the paycheck gap</description><pubDate>Mon, 05 May 2008 22:00:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Age discrimination hits Supreme Court</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/2007/12/04/smbusiness/age_discrimination.fsb/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/2007/12/04/smbusiness/age_discrimination.fsb/index.htm</guid><description>To what extent can an employee plaintiff use testimony from co-workers to prove that a company discriminates based on age? That's the issue that the Supreme Court took up Monday morning in Sprint and United Management Company versus Mendelsohn.</description><pubDate>Tue, 04 Dec 2007 23:37:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Job Search Hard for Returning Vets</title><link>http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1681782,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</link><guid>http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1681782,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</guid><description>Growing numbers of military reservists say the government is providing little help to soldiers who are denied their old jobs when they return home</description><pubDate>Thu, 08 Nov 2007 14:30:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Supreme Court hears age discrimination case</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/2007/11/07/smbusiness/supreme_court.fsb/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/2007/11/07/smbusiness/supreme_court.fsb/index.htm</guid><description>This week the Supreme Court took up a case that could have far-reaching effects on workplace discrimination lawsuits nationwide.</description><pubDate>Wed, 07 Nov 2007 23:54:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>The war over unconscious bias</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2007/10/15/100537276/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2007/10/15/100537276/index.htm</guid><description>Last February a federal appeals court panel in San Francisco decided, 2-1, to allow the largest class action employment discrimination case ever convened to go forward against Wal-Mart Stores. The class includes the more than two million women who have worked at any of the company's more than 4,000 retail stores nationwide since Dec. 26, 1998.</description><pubDate>Mon, 01 Oct 2007 03:27:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Bloomberg LP accused of sex discrimination</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/2007/09/27/news/companies/bloomberg_discrimination.ap/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/2007/09/27/news/companies/bloomberg_discrimination.ap/index.htm</guid><description>Bloomberg L.P., the news and financial services company, was accused by the federal government Thursday of discriminating against women who became pregnant and took maternity leave.</description><pubDate>Thu, 27 Sep 2007 10:03:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Obama flunks Econ 101</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/2007/06/04/magazines/fortune/muphy_payact.fortune/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/2007/06/04/magazines/fortune/muphy_payact.fortune/index.htm</guid><description>It's baaaack!! Yes, "comparable worth," which faded out around the same time the Bay City Rollers were disbanding, is making a comeback, under the euphemism "pay equity". To wit: the Fair Pay Act of 2007. Introduced by Tom Harkin (D-Iowa) in April (Illionois Sen. and Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama is one of 15 co-sponsors) the Act notes the existence of wage differentials between men and women.</description><pubDate>Mon, 04 Jun 2007 14:15:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Court: Limit Pay Discrimination Suits</title><link>http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1626166,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</link><guid>http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1626166,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</guid><description>The Supreme Court limited workers' ability to sue for pay discrimination Tuesday, ruling against a Goodyear employee who earned thousands of dollars less than her male counterparts but waited too long to complain</description><pubDate>Tue, 29 May 2007 22:25:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>A terrible message </title><link>http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2007/writers/aditi_kinkhabwala/02/09/portland/index.html</link><guid>http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2007/writers/aditi_kinkhabwala/02/09/portland/index.html</guid><description>Rene Portland still has a job. And I am utterly stumped at how.</description><pubDate>Fri, 09 Feb 2007 19:07:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Today's Buzz stories</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2007/SHOWBIZ/01/12/showbuzz/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2007/SHOWBIZ/01/12/showbuzz/index.html</guid><description>Wright State University President Kim Goldenberg received a surprise at his retirement bash -- a visit from Mr. Spock of "Star Trek," aka actor Leonard Nimoy.</description><pubDate>Fri, 12 Jan 2007 19:49:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Getting around the '401(k) penalty'</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/2006/11/10/pf/expert/expert.moneymag.moneymag/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/2006/11/10/pf/expert/expert.moneymag.moneymag/index.htm</guid><description>Question: My husband and I are trying very hard to get our finances in order and save for retirement. But just when we thought we'd be able to contribute the maximum $15,000 this year to my husband's 401(k) because he got a nice raise, we found out he is considered a "highly compensated employee."</description><pubDate>Fri, 10 Nov 2006 17:11:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Before you call it quits</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/2006/07/12/pf/saving/willis/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/2006/07/12/pf/saving/willis/index.htm</guid><description>While half of all baby boomers expect to be working past 65 years old, only about 13 percent of retirees are actually doing so, according to a recent study.</description><pubDate>Wed, 12 Jul 2006 19:56:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Help! My boss insists I donate to a cause I disagree with</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/2006/07/05/news/economy/annie0705.fortune/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/2006/07/05/news/economy/annie0705.fortune/index.htm</guid><description>Dear Annie: My company was recently acquired, and the culture is changing drastically. One aspect of the new regime, as openly expressed by the company president, is that we are all expected to donate money to a political action committee. 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His résumé was impeccable. He had 20 years of experience under his belt and plenty of references describing him as a hig...</description><pubDate>Mon, 16 May 2005 04:01:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Teacher: Harry helped in art exam</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/europe/05/10/harry.tribunal.1200/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/europe/05/10/harry.tribunal.1200/index.html</guid><description>Former teachers of Prince Harry at Eton College helped him to cheat at his A-level art exam because he was such a weak student, a sacked former teacher has claimed.</description><pubDate>Tue, 10 May 2005 15:55:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Harry's teacher in payoff dispute</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/europe/05/10/harry.tribunal/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/europe/05/10/harry.tribunal/index.html</guid><description>A sacked Eton College art teacher demanded a bigger pay-off from the headmaster as she revealed allegations that Prince Harry had been given "improper assistance" with AS-Level coursework, a tribunal has heard.</description><pubDate>Tue, 10 May 2005 08:42:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Former chef: Jackson improperly touched Culkin</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2005/LAW/04/08/jackson.trial/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2005/LAW/04/08/jackson.trial/index.html</guid><description>A former chef at Michael Jackson's Neverland Ranch testified Friday that he saw the pop star improperly touch child movie star Macaulay Culkin in the early 1990s.</description><pubDate>Fri, 08 Apr 2005 18:04:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Supreme Court eases way for age discrimination suits</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2005/LAW/03/30/scotus.age/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2005/LAW/03/30/scotus.age/index.html</guid><description>In a victory for older workers, the Supreme Court concluded Wednesday that people over 40 can sue for alleged age discrimination under a less burdensome legal standard of proof.</description><pubDate>Wed, 30 Mar 2005 19:53:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>EEOC complaints down, fines up</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/2005/02/15/news/economy/eeoc/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/2005/02/15/news/economy/eeoc/index.htm</guid><description>The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission collected a record $420 million from employers that violated workplace discrimination laws even as the total number of complaints filed dropped for the second consecutive year.</description><pubDate>Tue, 15 Feb 2005 14:14:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Should My Laid-Off Friend Sue for Age Discrimination?</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2004/12/27/8217962/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2004/12/27/8217962/index.htm</guid><description>Dear Annie: A friend of mine was laid off recently, supposedly because he failed to meet certain (ridiculously high) goals. In truth, he thinks it was because he is much older and more expensive th...</description><pubDate>Mon, 27 Dec 2004 05:01:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>FedEx hit for $1.5M</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/2004/12/22/news/fortune500/fedex/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/2004/12/22/news/fortune500/fedex/index.htm</guid><description>FedEx Corp, the world's largest air-express mail service, was ordered to pay $1.5 million for retaliating against an employee who tried to promote two minority workers, according to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission Wednesday.</description><pubDate>Wed, 22 Dec 2004 21:34:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Coach: Title IX protects me from retaliation</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2004/LAW/12/01/jackson/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2004/LAW/12/01/jackson/index.html</guid><description>The U.S. Supreme Court is considering whether the gender equity law that prohibits discrimination in women's sports also affords protections to people who report the unfair treatment.</description><pubDate>Wed, 01 Dec 2004 15:40:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Blair vows response on hostage</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/europe/09/29/uk.hostage/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/europe/09/29/uk.hostage/index.html</guid><description>British Prime Minister Tony Blair has vowed that if the kidnappers of countryman Kenneth Bigley contact a British official, "we'd respond to it immediately."</description><pubDate>Wed, 29 Sep 2004 12:30:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Wal-Mart wants to declassify lawsuit</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2004/LAW/08/11/sebok.walmart.suit/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2004/LAW/08/11/sebok.walmart.suit/index.html</guid><description>A federal district court in San Francisco certified a sex discrimination class action suit against Wal-Mart earlier this summer. (When a court "certifies" a class action, it allows the case to proceed with a class of plaintiffs, according to class action rules -- as opposed to with a number of individual plaintiffs.)</description><pubDate>Wed, 11 Aug 2004 18:11:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>'Belittled' banker claims $13m </title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/europe/06/09/uk.tribunal/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/europe/06/09/uk.tribunal/index.html</guid><description>A senior woman banker who claims she was forced to act as air stewardess on board a corporate jet has launched a Â£7.1 million ($13 million) claim in Britain for unfair dismissal and sex discrimination.</description><pubDate>Wed, 09 Jun 2004 09:04:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Are 'Friends' writers 'required' to engage in sexual banter?</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2004/LAW/05/04/grossman.friends/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2004/LAW/05/04/grossman.friends/index.html</guid><description>As the sun sets this week on "Friends," NBC's long-running hit sitcom, the writers, producers and network remain embroiled in litigation.</description><pubDate>Tue, 04 May 2004 20:13:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Comparing marriage and civil unions</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2004/LAW/02/26/bush.civil.unions/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2004/LAW/02/26/bush.civil.unions/index.html</guid><description>When President Bush announced his support for a constitutional amendment defining "marriage as a union of a man and woman as husband and wife," he hinted that state legislatures could define "legal arrangements other than marriage" for same-sex couples.</description><pubDate>Thu, 26 Feb 2004 14:43:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Uh-Oh: Pensions May All Be In Peril</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2003/09/01/348179/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2003/09/01/348179/index.htm</guid><description>In late July a federal district court ruled that IBM had violated age-discrimination laws when it switched its pension plan to the "cash balance" version in 1999. But while employee-rights activist...</description><pubDate>Mon, 01 Sep 2003 04:01:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>The Changing Face Of Pensions</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/moneymag_archive/2003/04/01/339713/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/moneymag_archive/2003/04/01/339713/index.htm</guid><description>As she moved up the ranks at AT&amp;amp;T, the last thing Jane Banfield worried about was her pension. She'd started out in sales in 1982, worked her way up to management and, by the late '90s, was startin...</description><pubDate>Tue, 01 Apr 2003 05:01:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>The changing face of pensions</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/2003/03/13/retirement/pensions/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/2003/03/13/retirement/pensions/index.htm</guid><description>As she moved up the ranks at AT&amp;amp;T, the last thing Jane Banfield worried about was her pension.</description><pubDate>Mon, 17 Mar 2003 19:01:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Gains &amp;amp; Losses</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fsb/fsb_archive/2001/12/01/315127/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fsb/fsb_archive/2001/12/01/315127/index.htm</guid><description>Fireproof Insurance </description><pubDate>Sat, 01 Dec 2001 05:01:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Working By Numbers</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2001/07/09/306528/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2001/07/09/306528/index.htm</guid><description>25% "Brainstorming" ideas that improved a given process, according to a QualPro study of 471 process improvement experiments at 163 companies over the course of five years </description><pubDate>Mon, 09 Jul 2001 04:01:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Finished At Forty IN THE NEW ECONOMY, THE SKILLS THAT             COME WITH AGE COUNT FOR LESS AND LESS. SUDDENLY, 40 IS        </title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1999/02/01/254395/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1999/02/01/254395/index.htm</guid><description>America is no place to age gracefully. Of course, basketball players, dancers, and fashion models are finished young; mathematicians and chess players peak early too. So do construction workers and...</description><pubDate>Mon, 01 Feb 1999 05:01:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>HOW TO FIGHT FOR YOUR HEALTH BENEFITS</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/moneymag_archive/1997/08/01/229760/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/moneymag_archive/1997/08/01/229760/index.htm</guid><description>Edward McKeever always knew his job could kill him. For 25 years, he assembled steel girders into office towers and magnificent bridges like the 4,260-foot-long Verrazano Narrows span that links Br...</description><pubDate>Fri, 01 Aug 1997 04:01:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>STAND UP FOR YOUR RIGHTS ON THE JOB RECENT STATE LAWS AND COURT RULINGS HAVE GIVEN EMPLOYEES MORE CLOUT. HERE'S WHAT YOU NEED TO</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/moneymag_archive/1997/03/01/223003/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/moneymag_archive/1997/03/01/223003/index.htm</guid><description>Texaco, Mitsubishi, Morgan Stanley, Smith Barney, the U.S. Army. What do these employers have in common? They have all been the target of recent allegations of either harassment or discrimination i...</description><pubDate>Sat, 01 Mar 1997 05:01:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>"TOO DAMN OLD"</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/moneymag_archive/1996/07/01/214148/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/moneymag_archive/1996/07/01/214148/index.htm</guid><description>A few weeks before he was fired in August 1990, James O'Connor says, his boss told him that he was "too damn old" to travel around Virginia and the Carolinas overseeing the company's vending machin...</description><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jul 1996 04:01:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>THE LAW NOBODY OBEYS, SUPPLY-SIDE ROULETTE WHEELS,             SICK JOKES IN MERRIE ENGLAND, AND OTHER MATTERS.</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1996/06/10/213258/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1996/06/10/213258/index.htm</guid><description>THE CASE FOR AGEISM </description><pubDate>Mon, 10 Jun 1996 04:01:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>WHY AFFIRMATIVE ACTION WON'T DIE REPUBLICANS, THE             COURTS, AND CALIFORNIA HAVE DECLARED WAR ON IT. BUT             RA</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1995/11/13/207666/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1995/11/13/207666/index.htm</guid><description>The racial-preference policies lumped together under the label "affirmative action" seem to be reaching the end of their collective road. The Republican majority in Congress and most GOP presidenti...</description><pubDate>Mon, 13 Nov 1995 05:01:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>WOMEN COULD BE BIG LOSERS IF AFFIRMATIVE ACTION FALLS</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/moneymag_archive/1995/08/01/205199/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/moneymag_archive/1995/08/01/205199/index.htm</guid><description>MEMO TO PRESIDENT CLINTON: While you and the rest of the Beltway bigwigs consider re-engineering affirmative action programs that favor minorities, the nation's 60 million working women might not c...</description><pubDate>Tue, 01 Aug 1995 04:01:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>DOWN WITH IMPERIALISM, DRAWING THE LINE AT ACTORS, A             NOTE ON DOLPHIN TAILS, AND OTHER MATTERS.</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1995/01/16/201820/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1995/01/16/201820/index.htm</guid><description>GROWTH SITUATION </description><pubDate>Mon, 16 Jan 1995 05:01:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>HOW TO ALIENATE YOUR TOP JOB CANDIDATES</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1994/12/26/80132/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1994/12/26/80132/index.htm</guid><description>Women and minorities embarking on careers in white-collar America may find the welcome they receive a tad harsh. A survey of 200 top college students by the Hanigan Consulting Group shows that Fort...</description><pubDate>Mon, 26 Dec 1994 05:01:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>SEVEN RULES TO BREAK IN A DE-JOBBED WORLD </title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1994/09/19/79750/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1994/09/19/79750/index.htm</guid><description>Most of us still play under the old rules of jobs and careers. In examining your own attitudes, watch out for these old rules -- and replace them when you find them. </description><pubDate>Mon, 19 Sep 1994 04:01:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>The case for the numbers racket, our imported CEOs, a fan kicks around Nixon, and other matters. WHERE QUOTAS CAME FROM</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1994/05/30/79334/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1994/05/30/79334/index.htm</guid><description>We approach this item with mixed emotions, as it will require us to speak ill of our 37th President, a man we genuinely liked and admired and voted for at every opportunity. Your servant is in this...</description><pubDate>Mon, 30 May 1994 04:01:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Rights for copywriters, more management murders, the promise Bill will keep, and other matters. ONLY IN AMERICA (Cont'd)</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1993/05/31/77891/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1993/05/31/77891/index.htm</guid><description>A decision to require tuberculosis tests for U.S. Postal Service job applicants in the Washington area has raised . . . concerns about how to curb the growing number of local TB cases without stepp...</description><pubDate>Mon, 31 May 1993 04:01:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Fighting age bias at work; spring ski bargains; regulating financial planners; wealth-boosting videos HOW TO FIGHT AGE BIAS AND </title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/moneymag_archive/1993/03/01/87862/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/moneymag_archive/1993/03/01/87862/index.htm</guid><description>With the ranks of workers ages 50 and up growing by about 1% each year amid massive corporate layoffs, age-bias complaints filed with state and federal regulators have jumped 28% since 1990 to more...</description><pubDate>Mon, 01 Mar 1993 05:01:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>SHE BLEW THE WHISTLE ON SEXUAL BIAS Now Sgt. Lauri Schwefel of the Milwaukee PD will use what's left of her $72,000 out-of-court</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/moneymag_archive/1991/12/01/86955/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/moneymag_archive/1991/12/01/86955/index.htm</guid><description>As a 21-year-old rookie with the Milwaukee police force a dozen years ago, Lauri Schwefel used to accept male officers' off-color humor and sexual innuendos as part of the job. ''I'd be with a bunc...</description><pubDate>Sun, 01 Dec 1991 05:01:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Guess what's sacred at Stanford, the case for ageism, panhandler rights, and other matters. SLIPPING</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1990/12/17/74443/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1990/12/17/74443/index.htm</guid><description>Your servant senses that it is time for a little more back talk on the subject of ageism. Every time you turn around these days, there is another uplifting editorial deploring bias against the oldi...</description><pubDate>Mon, 17 Dec 1990 05:01:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Biting questions, unreality in the desert, the lawyers' favorite legislation, and other matters. THE LAWYERS ARE SALIVATING</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1990/04/09/73338/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1990/04/09/73338/index.htm</guid><description>We have bad news from Billcast: The Civil Rights Act of 1990 looks like a winner. Billcast, the legislative forecasting system admiringly described in these columns a while back (February 26), says...</description><pubDate>Mon, 09 Apr 1990 04:01:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Working The Truth About Post-Job Jobs GOING BACK TO             WORK MAY NOT BE WORTH IT FINANCIALLY, YET FOR MANY RETIREES     </title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/moneymag_archive/1989/11/08/85478/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/moneymag_archive/1989/11/08/85478/index.htm</guid><description>Don Conley has it all -- a loving family, a secure retirement and challenging work that not only satisfies his soul but slakes his wanderlust. When he retired as vice president of public affairs at...</description><pubDate>Wed, 08 Nov 1989 05:01:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Tedium Time on the Campus, Harassment Without Sex, Brokaw's Nose and Other Features, and Other Matters. Fat Rights</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1987/01/05/68542/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1987/01/05/68542/index.htm</guid><description>In which Kindly Dr. Keeping Up testifies on the emerging issue of nonsexual harassment and addresses the fateful question: Why tolerate harassment of fat people? Dear Kindly: Are you of all people ...</description><pubDate>Mon, 05 Jan 1987 05:01:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>A New ERA, The Decline of Everyone, Rethinking McDonald's, and Other Matters. The Case Against Old Age</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1986/11/10/68251/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1986/11/10/68251/index.htm</guid><description>A decent interval having elapsed, we figure it would be acceptable to nonchalantly restate the case in favor of age discrimination, especially in light of certain subtle hints that nobody in the Ho...</description><pubDate>Mon, 10 Nov 1986 05:01:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Some reservations about an alien bill</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1986/11/10/68290/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1986/11/10/68290/index.htm</guid><description>Nobody knows if Congress's multi-tentacled bill will actually curb illegal immigration, but it will surely confuse and complicate hiring for U.S. companies. Says labor lobbyist Virginia Lamp of the...</description><pubDate>Mon, 10 Nov 1986 05:01:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Into the Desert with Kenny Rogers, Software for Sitting, Graybeards Aloft, and Other Matters.</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1986/03/03/67194/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1986/03/03/67194/index.htm</guid><description>Ageism Again When we were last groaning about the antiageist lobby, which seems to have been exactly two weeks ago, we were mostly getting exercised about the federal Age Discrimination in Employme...</description><pubDate>Mon, 03 Mar 1986 05:01:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>A KGB Charmer, A New Deck in L.A., Howard's Hysterics, and Other Matters. And Now, a Kind Word for Age Discrimination</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1986/02/17/67129/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1986/02/17/67129/index.htm</guid><description>In his outstretched hand, Keeping Up's senior policy analyst brandished a now-empty library folder labeled ''AGED, United States, Discrimination, 1980 -- .'' Piled around his ankles was a three-inc...</description><pubDate>Mon, 17 Feb 1986 05:01:00 EST</pubDate></item></channel></rss>