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Employees with disabilities: disclosure v. privacy

Wednesday, September 22nd, 2010

One of the most difficult decisions employees or applicants have to make is to decide whether to inform their employer of their non-obvious disabilities. Why?

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Tags: disclosure, Disclosure of a disability, discrimination, duty to accommodate, Employees with disabilities, employment law, privacy, work environment
Posted in Accessibility Standards, Human Resources, Human Rights, Privacy and Security, Standard for Employment | 2 Comments »

Multi-tasking: where do you draw the line?

Thursday, August 26th, 2010

Multi-tasking is so serious that workers are taking their work into the washroom, with disturbing results. According to a recent survey, one-third of Brits admit they’ve made a “stall-call”—that is, a call from the toilet, not just the restroom—whether for business or pleasure. And one in twenty said they’ve taken their laptop with them when nature called. The survey also found a significant—and disgusting—number of people eat, drink and brush their teeth while answering nature’s call.

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Tags: cellphone use, health and safety, hygiene, illness, illness at work, multi-tasking, productivity, risky behaviour, sickness, stall-call, vicarious liability, work environment, working, working conditions
Posted in Health and Safety, Human Resources, Internal Controls, Training and Development | Make a Comment »

Genetic discrimination in the workplace

Tuesday, November 24th, 2009

I first wrote about genetic discrimination in the workplace in August of 2004. At that time, I compared it to the movie Gattaca, in which a man tries to hide his “imperfect” genetic makeup so that he can enjoy a way of life and secure a job reserved for people without “flawed” genes. Although Gattaca is science fiction, the movie’s plot is not that remote from present-day reality.

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Tags: anti-discrimination law, discrimination, employment discrimination cases, employment law, genetic data, Genetic discrimination, genetic makeup, genetic predispositions, genetic testing, genomics, human DNA, Human Genome Project, human rights, The Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act, work environment, workplace performance
Posted in Human Resources, Human Rights | 1 Comment »

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