Carol Kleiman

`The prevailing philosophy among employers is that work/life policies are only profitable and feasible for professional workers or in high-tech industries and not low-wage workers--a shortsighted view." That's the observation...

I get letters--letters and e-mails and faxes and phone calls from job seekers who are outraged and deeply insulted at being turned down for jobs they say they deserve. And...

Q. I was recently laid off and told it was because of restructuring. However, I met my replacement the day I left! I'm feeling rejected and inadequate--even though my replacement...

Are women better off today than they were in 1980? The answer, for those women who aren't too tired from their multiple responsibilities to hear it, is: "Yes!" But this...

Adaptability. Flexibility. Rolling with the punches. Settling for less. These are the personal characteristics that will get you through today's uncertain job market, according to Antoinette C. Ewing, clinical section...

Q. My company had a corporate restructuring and my position was eliminated. I am entitled to a bonus as part of my compensation package and wonder if I have any...

When Wendy Alders Cartland, director of human resources at Kirkland & Ellis, a Chicago-based law firm, lived in the suburbs, she commuted five days a week. Cartland drove to her...

Here are some insights into the world of work: Where the jobs are: According to the Occupational Outlook Quarterly, a publication of the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, these occupations...

Q. My firm holds an annual company party, a really fancy one, including lunch at a hotel and even dancing till 5 p.m. This party used to be optional but...

Eileen Applebaum is a well-known economist and research director at the Economic Policy Institute, a non-profit, Washington-based think tank that specializes in research about working people. And the veteran workplace...