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Title Vii Compensation Issues Affecting Bilingual Hispanic Employees, David Allen Larson Jan 1991

Title Vii Compensation Issues Affecting Bilingual Hispanic Employees, David Allen Larson

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This article deals the workers who are bilingual and their accompanying compensation on the job. The article covers compensation, classification, Bilingual Hispanic employees required to speak both Spanish and English on the job may, in certain circumstances, be entitled to greater compensation under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 than employees who do the same job exclusively in English. It is unlikely, however, that a court will conclude that bilingual Hispanic employees required to speak both Spanish and English are for that reason alone entitled to increased compensation. Yet bilingual Hispanic employees required to use both languages …


Employer Sanctions And Discrimination: The Case For Repeal Of The Employer Sanctions Provisions Of The Immigration Reform And Control Act Of 1986, Aaron Schwabach Jan 1991

Employer Sanctions And Discrimination: The Case For Repeal Of The Employer Sanctions Provisions Of The Immigration Reform And Control Act Of 1986, Aaron Schwabach

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Toward The Feminization Of Collective Bargaining Law, Gillian L. Lester Jan 1991

Toward The Feminization Of Collective Bargaining Law, Gillian L. Lester

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Canadian collective bargaining law is flawed because it fails to address the concerns of a substantial segment of the work force and overlooks women as a rich source of insight into the dynamics of the bargaining environment. The author begins by exploring the problems inherent in the classical contractualist model, arguing that current collective bargaining law reflects these weaknesses and echoes a morality and ideology which are stereotypically masculine. By analyzing the legal and practical structures of collective bargaining, the author illustrates the ways in which the "morality of the workplace" is manifested differently between men and women. The author …


Constitutional Values In The Private Sector Workplace, Joseph R. Grodin Jan 1991

Constitutional Values In The Private Sector Workplace, Joseph R. Grodin

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Parental Leaves And Poor Women: Paying The Price For Time Off, Maria O'Brien Jan 1991

Parental Leaves And Poor Women: Paying The Price For Time Off, Maria O'Brien

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This Article presents a critique of unpaid "parental" leaves and the parental leave legislation recently passed by Congress.1 Eight states have already enacted parental leave statutes of various kinds.' For the sake of simplicity and uniformity, however, this Article focuses on the proposed federal legislation3 and its anticipated effects on unemployed and underemployed women.4 Specifically, this Article argues that the debate about parental leave 5 has ignored the possibility that the cost of this mandated benefit is likely to be borne by poor, low-skill working women6 who will find that their job opportunities narrow as employers try to shift some …