The purpose of this paper is to review the literature on employee absenteeism as a form of withdrawal behavior apart from turnover. Studies examining the psychometric properties of absence measures are reviewed, along with the relationship between absenteeism and personal, attitudinal, and organizational variables. (Author)

Recent developments in homosexual activism regarding employment problems in both the public and private sector are analyzed. Focus is on the law governing private employment, where homosexuals are afforded the least legal protection against discrimination. Available from: the University of Santa Clara, Santa Clara, California 95053. (LBH)

Classwide relief in individual Title VII actions has not yet been utilized to the extent authorized by the Civil Rights Act of 1964, but Title VII decisions will continue to evolve and make complete classwide relief available. For journal availability see HE 508 844. (Author/LBH)

Reviews actions by government agencies, courts and private agencies, having to do with racial and sexual discrimination in education, school integration, discrimination in teacher salaries, affirmative action to increase the number of professional women in environmental health, engineering and science. Also reviews publications in these areas. (JM)

A study involving 50 rehabilitation professionals, 264 rehabilitation clients, 90 adults with blindness, and 267 employers, identified factors that lead to or impede competitive job placements for clients of a state blindness rehabilitation agency. Also identified were services that employers felt would assist them in hiring or retaining clients.…

Reviews anecdotal research and empirical studies that examine the relationship between work addiction and family-of-origin dysfunction and its impact on family development. The latest empirical research, although tentative at best, was found to corroborate earlier anecdotal reports on nearly all the variables studied. Presents intervention…

Reaction to job loss can be considered as analogous to reaction to the death of a loved one. The stages that an individual needs to work through will be similar. Both cognitive and existential aspects of job loss are examined together with some thoughts on helping clients cope. (Author)

Case study presents downsizing from one individual's perspective. Suggests the following strategies and procedures for reducing the negative effect of downsizing on employees: planning in advance, developing effective communications, centralizing decision making, and educating personnel specialists and managers. Includes five appendixes. (JBJ)

The economic shifts of the past decade represent a new era in the U.S. workplace. Many of the millions of dislocated managers and professionals will not be reemployed in similar jobs because those jobs have disappeared. The economy has changed from the pyramid shape that most people envision, with a large blue-collar base and a smaller…

These two articles, which are based on the comments of more than 2,000 readers of the American Association of Retired Persons'"AARP Bulletin," examine career changing in the United States. The first article, "Up and Away: Second Careers Taking Off," focuses on the specific careers that adults are moving into and out of and the…

Data from the 1992 Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP) were used to investigate the participation of young adults with disabilities between the ages of 18 through 26 (n=6,025,000) in the Supplemental Security Income (SSI) program. The study found that 33.4 percent of potentially eligible persons between 19 and 36 years old were found…

The National Longitudinal Surveys (NLS), sponsored by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of Labor, are a set of surveys each of which has gathered information at multiple points in time on the labor market experiences of five groups of men and women since the mid-1960s. Each group of at least 5,000 persons was selected to be…

The Manpower Division's three general sessions at the American Vocational Association's 1975 Convention offered speakers, panels, and multi-media presentations illuminating the education and employment problems encountered by Indians, Spanish-speaking, and black Americans because of white Americans' lack of cultural awareness. Successful programs…

Reviews the literature in the Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC) on the role of women in the mass media and their struggle for recognition. (RB)

The workings of the federal government, the educational system and private industry are seen as conspiring against black youth's employment opportunities. This tragedy is forecast to continue until the government shifts from being a partner in exclusion to being an agent of social inclusion. (Author/AM)