Longform.org recently republished four excerpts from Studs Terkel’s Working, which is a 1974 book of oral histories collected by Terkel that focuses on the careers of interviewees from across the spectrum of American jobs. The four entries excerpted by Longform were all from women, and Longform republished them as “Women at Work.” Together, the four oral histories detail the careers of a housekeeper, a…
Posted October 6th, 2014. U.S. District Court Orders Female Employees Receive Notice of their Right to Join Equal Pay Act Class Suit Against Big Four Accounting Giant, KPMG For more information, contact Jamie Moss, newsPRos,201-493-1027, [email protected] (October 6, 2014, New York, NY) – Today, approximately 9,000 women who work or worked at KPMG between October 2008 and the present should begin…
Lately, I’ve been thinking quite a bit about what it means to take a stand in the workplace. Perhaps it was the hubbub around the threat to retaliate against Emma Watson that got me thinking about it. Perhaps it was hearing my client Donna Kassman talk about why she chose to come forward and file a lawsuit against her employer. Perhaps it was the…