This document discusses the issues and regulations that affect schools, school districts, and state education agencies in the release of personal information on their employees. It is not intended to provide legal guidelines, but rather to introduce the key concepts involved in protecting and managing information in staff records. By understanding…

This study reports the perceptions of 56 employment interviewers regarding the worker characteristics of males and females of varying ages. Results showed that significant main effects due to age were obtained on six questions. Females were seen as being more likely than males to be frequently absent from work and less likely than males to have…

Summation of the proceedings at a conference which sought answers to the following questions: (1) What are employers now doing to meet the problems of the transition of many uoung people from school to work? (2) What are these employers able and willing to do in the future to meet these problems? (SB)

This survey of programs operated by five large New York City area employers was undertaken to discover what can be effectively done to ease the critical transition from school to work--or from school to unemployment to work--in good times and bad. (Author)

A survey reveals a widespread tendency to pay men more than women for the same work at all levels of education and experience. Charts and figures explain the numbers and supply of women geoscientists, years of experience, education, employers, and work activity. (BL)

Retirement provisions may force older workers out of the labor force or restrict their employment opportunities. (Editor)

Analyzes the hiring practices of a sample of employers participating in the Work Incentive Program. (BH)

Canada is in danger of not having a genuinely cosmopolitan academic community, but American branch universities located in Canada. (Editor)

Essay by senior girl describes difficulties encountered in applying for job in nuclear engineering. Employers in male-dominated fields still discriminate against women, laying burden on placement directors concerned with advising women interested in such work areas. Part Two of three-part article. Other parts included same issue. (CJ)

Changes in work rules are moving the workplace away from rigid labor practices created by labor/management. A more flexible structure is evolving that can adapt to new technology and provide new products at competitive cost. Discusses the movement and the impact of international competition/deregulation on the trend. (JN)

While tenure has its disadvantages, far more would be lost than gained by reducing or abandoning the tenure system. Strategies are available to both safeguard against tenure abuse and increase institutional flexibility by reducing the proportion of tenured appointments, without endangering the traditional role of the institution. (Author/MSE)

Developmental and situational experiences of individuals affecting organizational behavior are distributed predictably in contemporary higher education. It is possible that universities will experience institutional "passages" as a result of the widely shared experiences of their members. (JOW)

Resolution of the comparable worth controversy involves judicial enforcement of statutory mandates and remedial development of bias-free evaluation systems, wage negotiation, and possible restructuring of work positions. Remedies will be developed when wage discrimination is no longer tolerable. (AVAIL: University of San Diego School of Law, San…

In court litigation in which women prison guards' claim of pay discrimination was rejected at the local level, the Supreme Court ruled that the case could be debated based on workers'"comparable worth" instead of "equal work," the traditional argument. Further litigation on the comparable worth issue is anticipated. (MSE)