WIN AT WORK MONTHLY
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A Community Service of DON D. SESSIONS, A PROFESSIONAL LAW CORP., Employee Rights Attorneys |
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Win At Work WORK: GRIEF’S ANTIDOTE We’ve all grieved or suffered unhappiness at one time or another. Shakespeare wrote in MacBeth that “the labour we delight in [removes] pain.” In the 1700’s, Samuel Johnson commented that “the safe and general antidote against sorrow is employment,” especially as soldiers cope with losing their comrades in war. He said “whoever shall keep his thoughts busy, will find himself unaffected with irretrievable losses.” Voltaire advised against over-philosophizing about life’s unhappinesses and challenged people to “get down to work . . . it’s the only way to make life bearable.” Rudyard Kipling taught: The cure for this ill is not to sit still, Or frowst with a book by the fire; But to take a large hoe and a shovel also, And dig till you gently perspire. Working isn’t so much “burying your head in the sand” to ignore life’s troubles, as much as it is getting on with life and accomplishment. So is something bothering you? Get working! |
Employee Rights Update STARING: SEX DISCRIMINATION Most of us think we know what sex harassment and sex discrimination are, but it can take unexpected forms. In a recent case, a female coworker rebuffed a male worker’s amorous advances. She complained to her boss. The advances stopped, but he began dropping by her workstation regularly to stare at her for long periods of time. She complained, but the company did not believe he was “sexually harassing” her. The court of appeals disagreed. Gender discrimination need not be overtly sexual. His staring was a form of retaliation for her complaints about his offensive conduct. It was related to, and grew out of, the original harassment. The company should have made him stop. She did the right thing – she complained about the initial harassment, and then about the retaliatory staring. When the company did nothing, it failed to protect her, and will now pay the price. - Mark J. Keough, Attorney
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Update on our attorneys – Don Sessions spoke on 300 stations on National Public Radio coast to coast on the implications of recent across-the-board pay cuts imposed by many employers. Patrick Turner gave a legal update to employment law attorneys at a seminar sponsored by the Orange County Bar Association. Blair Roberts settled a case in the six-figure range. | ||||
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Look for our answers to employees’ questions in the "Shop Talk" column of the Los Angeles Times’ Monday Business Section or the “Life and Work Q & A” column of the Orange County Register’s "Business Monday" magazine. Click here to add (or here to delete) your E-mail address to or from our monthly mailing list. For more employee rights information or for past issues of Win at Work Monthly, click here for our website, job-law.com; here to order our book, Employee Rights in California; or contact our office directly at 23456 Madero, Suite 170, Mission Viejo, CA 92691, (949) 380-0900, (800) 774-7494, mailto:attorneys@job-law.com. The Win at Work portion of Win at Work Monthly is from our ongoing syndicated column appearing in Times/Mirror Publications (including Los Angeles Jobs and Orange County Jobs) and elsewhere. Win at Work Monthly is intended for general information and should not be construed as legal advice or opinion. Readers in need of legal advice should promptly retain the services of an attorney. ©2001 by Don D. Sessions. |
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