This booklet presents administrative criteria for implementation of the Canadian Human Rights Act to be used by the Canadian Human Rights Commission to evaluate employment decisions affecting physically handicapped individuals. They are of value to employers who need to know how the Commission will analyze employer arguments that they have not…

Intended for use by cooperative education program coordinators, this module deals with fair labor standards as they are specified in the amended version of the Federal Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938. The module, which is designed to be a self-paced instructional package, includes a pre-test, answer key, scoring instructions, a reinforcement…

Intended for use by cooperative education program coordinators, this module deals with the United States Revenue Act of 1978 as it pertains to vocational cooperative education program enrollees and to employers sponsoring such programs in Michigan. The module, which is designed to be a self-paced instructional package, contains a pre-test, answer…

Intended for use by cooperative education program coordinators, this module deals with the way in which the Michigan Youth Employment Standards Act (P.A. 90 of 1978, as amended) affects youth employed through vocational cooperative education programs in Michigan. The module, which is designed to be a self-paced instructional package, contains a…

A bibliography of more than 800 writings affecting labor relations and college faculty, as well as several other professions, is presented. The point of reference was the calendar year 1983. The faculty section covers the following topics: academic freedom, accountability, administration, affirmative action, arbitration and mediation, collective…

This report on the second National Conference for Youth on Drinking and Driving focuses on the potential of the workplace as a site for the prevention of teenage alcohol abuse, with a special emphasis on drinking and driving. Features of the conference are described which may be of interest to employers of youth, youth specialists, and alcohol…

This article examines the developing area of school law primarily through an analysis of pertinent recent court decisions. (Author)

A critical policy need in higher education is for sustaining institutional connections between work careers and professional education at all levels at every stage of the life cycle. (Author/KM)

Explores the present declining status of tenure and its role in job security. Urges administrators to seek their own creative solutions to the problem of job security. Proposes a "mission contract," a written agreement defining the administrator's task in terms of time, resources, salary, and standards of success and failure. Speech presented at…

Explores what admissions officers are and what they are not. Urges members of the admissions staff to seek a clear definition of conditions of employment and to assume responsibility for securing acceptance of those definitions. In lieu of tenure, Giffin suggests job security and due process. Speech presented at 30th Annual NACAC Conference, New…

Discusses a study that analyzed responses to fictitious position-wanted ads of female and minority candidates for administrative positions. (JT)

The focus of this testimony, presented before a public hearing of the New York City Commission on Human Rights in May 1974, is on the issues that the Puerto Rican Legal Defense Fund has been involved in over the past couple of years; litigation has been pursued against both school segregation and barriers to public employment against Puerto…

This testimony, before a public hearing of the New York City Commission on Human Rights in May 1974, has two express focuses: one is the question of quotas, and the other is the problem of relocation of plants and facilities in the suburban areas and the consequent difficulties minorities face in retaining equal employment opportunities.…

This testimony, before a public hearing of the New York City Commission on Human Rights in May 1974, focuses on two issues: (1) the effect of the presence of trade unionism on the position of black workers in the labor market relative to white workers; and (2) the effect of federal government efforts to increase the position of black workers…

This testimony, before a public hearing of the New York City Commission on Human Rights in May 1974, is stated to discuss the failure of the City of New York under the New York Plan to end job discrimination despite the explicitness of the law in this area: the first law in New York State prohibiting discrimination came either in the late twenties…