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Further Considerations: Immigrant Entrepreneurs - Contributions And Challenges, Jayesh Rathod
Further Considerations: Immigrant Entrepreneurs - Contributions And Challenges, Jayesh Rathod
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An overview of the contributions made by immigrant entrepreneurs in the United States, and the challenges they face.
Whistleblower Protection And The Challenge To Public Employment Law, Robert Vaughn
Whistleblower Protection And The Challenge To Public Employment Law, Robert Vaughn
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Whistleblowers who are public employees are protected by statutes which vary in scope and character, but authorise employees to disclose information outside of the chain of command and under standards that replace internal agency rules or guidelines. During the last decade a number of countries enacted whistleblower statutes that protect public employees who disclose various types of misconduct or incompetence. At the same time, a number of international treaties and conventions addressing governmental corruption have included provisions protecting whistleblowers. The recent activity in providing protection for public sector whistleblowers as well as movements for honesty and transparency in government present …
Maternity Leave Laws In The United States In The Light Of European Legislation, Candace Saari Kovacic-Fleischer
Maternity Leave Laws In The United States In The Light Of European Legislation, Candace Saari Kovacic-Fleischer
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This chapter describes the difficulty that the US has had in passing social legislation by viewing it through the changing attitudes of US Supreme Court justices toward employment legislation during five defining eras in the twentieth century: laissez-faire economics and wage and hour legislation, 1905-1941; President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal Social Security Act, 1935-1937; World War II, 1940-1948; the Civil Rights and Women’s movements, 1963-1978; and the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993. The US has expanded its view of government’s role in the private workplace over time, though not nearly as quickly as has Europe. The author …