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, by the president of the Municipal Employees Union before a public hearing of the New York City Commission on Human Rights in May 1974, emphasizes that occupational categories segregate its membership and discusses the unions' efforts to relieve a segregation that imposes mainly upon black and Puerto Rican citizens the lowest…

Chapter 7 in a book on school law traces the development of the legal doctrine of the Duty of Fair Representation. The "duty" resulted from judicial rulings by the U.S. Supreme Court to fight discrimination in railroad workers' unions. Other cases followed and the court expanded the doctrine of fair representation beyond racial…

Research suggests that higher level jobs are more likely to contain the essential job characteristics needed to cue achievement motives in high achievement workers. A comparison of university administrators and maintenance workers confirmed that the higher the level of the occupation, the higher the morale of the worker. However, no significant…

A sample of 103 government scientists was evaluated by panels of peers in regard to personnel action such as promotion. Analysis of information used by the panels and other data external to the process showed that peer ratings could be predicted accurately using only four variables: number of publications, honors and awards received, special…

This paper outlines prohibited practices in collective bargaining when they take place in public education. After discussing rights of public employees as they parallel the language of the National Labor Relations Act, the paper goes indepth into five practices generally prohibited by state law: (1) domination of and interference with employee…

In their 1977 decision, "Mt. Healthy City School District Board of Education v. Doyle," the Supreme Court held that if a government employee who had a reasonable expectation of continued employment is dismissed and can show that his dismissal was motivated by his taking actions that are constitutionally protected, the employing agency…

Data on public sector superannuation plans in Ontario provide the basis for this examination of the current situation regarding the pension funds for public employees and teachers. The report describes and compares the employee/employer contributions, basic benefits, rates of return, and ratio of beneficiaries to contributors in various public…

Evidence for this paper is based on the application of cross-section wage level and change regressions to national samples of teachers in determining the impact of unionization on teacher salaries. The findings contradict most of the previous empirical research (supporting a weak union paradigm and finding only marginal wage effects for…

More than 250,000 federal employees nationwide are participating in a three-year voluntary experiment to find out if the federal government can successfully use flexible and compressed work schedules as alternatives to the traditional eight-hour day, forty-hour workweek. If the experiment is a success, the Congress may modify laws to allow…

The aim of this plan is to provide the reader with an outline of the New York State Education Department's commitment to equal employment opportunity and its obligation to comply with various anti-discrimination laws. These laws include the New York State Human Rights Law, the Federal Equal Employment Opportunity Act of 1972, Section 504 of the…

The Insurance Services Office (ISO) of New York has filed two new insurance programs which will become effective nationwide on October 1, 1979, and are of special interest to social service agencies involved with transporting clients. The new insurance classification covering social service transportation programs, Liability Insurance for Vehicles…

Staff members of the Weber County Library System in Utah were studied in a research project to determine the effect on staff knowledge of library policies and procedures of (1) an employee handbook and (2) the handbook supplemented by a formal orientation procedure. Data were obtained from three randomly selected groups of library staff members in…

This monograph presents an overview of Pennsylvania's law governing collective bargaining for public employees (Act 195) and reviews Pennsylvania's experience under the law since its enactment in 1970. The passage of Act 195 for the first time made it possible for Pennsylvania public employees to bargain collectively and to legally strike when…

The handbook is a guide for Internal Revenue Service (IRS) personnel managers charged with providing career counseling for employees involved in the voluntary Upward Mobility program. Any IRS employee in a career ladder where the journeyman level is grade 7 or lower is eligible to compete for an Upward Mobility Target Position. Every employee in…