Democrats float jobless extension
House Democrats plan to introduce a bill calling for a 26-week extension of unemployment insurance benefits when Congress reconvenes in January, according to a staffer with the House Ways and...
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This time, recession hits white-collar workforce
Sonya Fitzpatrick was planning to buy a house before she got laid off in October 2001 as an advertising and marketing executive. Instead, she and her 3-year-old son are living...
Age bias complaints rising in hard times
Age discrimination claims showed the highest increase out of all the bias complaints filed against private employers last year with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. Figures for 2001 released last...
ADA ruling hailed, but some see jobs threat
Chicago's business community and local advocates can agree on at least one point regarding the Americans with Disabilities Act: The 1990 federal law is open to too much interpretation. Local...
Don’t just sit there, supercharge your career
Greg Morley almost made a drastic career change more than a year ago that he says would have been a huge mistake. Unhappy with his job as an applications engineer...
Summit for workers
The U.S. Department of Labor is hosting a national Summit on the 21st Century Workforce Wednesday at the MCI Center in Washington. "In order to prepare our country's workforce to...
Lightning layoffs may not pay off
One day in March, Melissa Davis was meeting with colleagues to outline plans at UNext.com, an online higher education provider. The next day, she said, she was packing her personal...
WEARY WARDS WAS STILL OLD FRIEND TO SW SIDE
Marcy Mandujano has seen retailers come and go. Years ago, she worked at Zayre, a discount chain that failed in the late 1980s. Then she moved to Ames Department Stores,...
RUNNING ON EMPTY
Women working in the digital economy love the creative freedoms and limited barriers of the job but say the 24/7 lifestyle is drying up their enthusiasm. According to a survey...
IRSLACKERS.
A secret monitoring by the U.S. Treasury Department of Internet use among Internal Revenue Service employees may explain why the number of audits is down these days: More than half...