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Book Review - Hiring And Firing, Rebekah K. Maxwell Jun 2009

Book Review - Hiring And Firing, Rebekah K. Maxwell

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Executive Employment Agreements In Tennessee: An Annotated Model Tennessee Executive Employment Agreement, Joan Macleod Heminway, Trace Blankenship Apr 2009

Executive Employment Agreements In Tennessee: An Annotated Model Tennessee Executive Employment Agreement, Joan Macleod Heminway, Trace Blankenship

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The coauthors have constructed an annotated model executive employment agreement for use in connection with mergers and acquisitions, annotated with footnotes on substantive law and legal drafting issues. They intend that this model agreement serve as a research piece, teaching tool, and practitioner resource. This annotated model agreement is the most recent in a series of coauthored merger and acquisition agreements and ancillary agreements and instruments published by Transactions: The Tennessee Journal of Business Law beginning in 2003.


Foreword Symposium: Having It Our Way: Women In Maryland's Workplace Circa 2027, Margaret E. Johnson Jan 2009

Foreword Symposium: Having It Our Way: Women In Maryland's Workplace Circa 2027, Margaret E. Johnson

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On November 14, 2007, the University of Baltimore School of Law, the University of Maryland School of Law and the Women's Law Center of Maryland co-sponsored a symposium entitled "Having it Our Way: Women in Maryland's Workplace Circa 2027." The insightful collection of papers in this volume of the University of Maryland Law Journal of Race, Religion, Gender and Class represents the work of employment law scholars, public policy specialists, and activists who presented on the current state of Maryland employment law and discussed Maryland's future. This distinguished group of experts and scholars present several themes: the hope of new …


From Queen Bees And Wannabes To Worker Bees: Why Gender Considerations Should Inform The Emerging Law Of Workplace Bullying, Kerri Lynn Stone Jan 2009

From Queen Bees And Wannabes To Worker Bees: Why Gender Considerations Should Inform The Emerging Law Of Workplace Bullying, Kerri Lynn Stone

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This Article submits that the documented phenomenon of workplace bullying operates to stymie the retention and advancement of women in the workplace Research documented in books like Queen Bees and Wannabes shows that as early as the schoolyard, males and females tend to socialize differently, engage in and resolve conflict with peers differently, and absorb bullying behavior differently. Girls often believe or are taught to believe that direct conflict or confrontation is unpalatable and tend to employ more passive aggressive means of engagement with foes. They often internalize and repress feelings that boys are more likely to express. Viewing the …


What We Learn In Troubled Times: Deregulation And Safe Work In The New Economy, Susan Bisom-Rapp Jan 2009

What We Learn In Troubled Times: Deregulation And Safe Work In The New Economy, Susan Bisom-Rapp

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Reviews of how federal agencies functioned during George W. Bush’s presidency reveal many instances of regulatory capture by industry. One prototypical example is the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), the agency responsible for occupational safety and health (OSH) standard setting and enforcement. In contrast, a broad array of stakeholders during the Bush years gave good marks to an entirely separate agency, the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), which conducts research and develops recommendations to prevent workplace injury and illness. By reviewing the disparate performance of OSHA and NIOSH during the Bush administration, this article sheds light …