The Center for WorkLife Law is a research and advocacy organization at UC Hastings College of the Law that seeks to advance gender and racial equity in the workplace and in higher education. WorkLife Law focuses on initiatives with the potential to produce concrete social, legal, and institutional change within a three to five year timeframe. Our current major initiatives include programs for advancing women leaders, eliminating barriers for pregnant and breastfeeding workers and students, preventing Family Responsibilities Discrimination, and helping companies to interrupt and correct bias in the workplace and create more stable schedules for their hourly workers.
Our latest report, Exposed: Discrimination Against Breastfeeding Workers, analyzes breastfeeding legal cases from the last decade to document patterns of discrimination, and analyzes new data on the scope of existing state and federal laws to protect against discrimination. We found that 27.6 million women of childbearing age don’t have the basic protections needed by all breastfeeding workers.
With the help of the Society of Women Engineers, the Center for WorkLife Law produced a comprehensive survey documenting in the real world what social psychologists have long observed in labs: that women and people of color experience workplace hurdles that do not exist for white men.
Employers have failed to put in place policies that protect and support caregivers. Based on our review of 4,000 cases, we review efforts to reduce bias against caregivers in the workplace.
For #TipTuesday: - Written by Founding Director @JoanCWilliams & Fellow Sky Mihaylo for @HarvardBiz | #DEI #Belonging
How the Best Bosses Interrupt Bias on Their Teams
Strategies to foster equity and inclusion
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The #SchedulesThatWork Act will finally bring the economic stability that people who work in the retail and food service industries need to have:
✔️Healthy work schedules
✔️Stable paychecks to pay bills
✔️Steady income to put food on the table
The Schedules That Work Act Would Put a Stop to Abusive Scheduling Practices
Too many workers are subjected to unpredictable scheduling practices that make work-life balance impossible.
www.abetterbalance.org
#Breastfeeding employees can visit https://t.co/oY8rQtoi9o for more information on their workplace rights.
"Not only do low-wage women typically have to return to work sooner after having a child, many of them also have a difficult time getting breaks from their employers to pump."
In order for the law to be meaningful, we must hold employers accountable. https://t.co/e1u0lDEmLC
Take your #MondayMotivation and start interrupting #implicitbias in your workplace. Founding Director @JoanCWilliams & Fellow Sky Mihaylo outline how in this month's issue of @HarvardBiz:
How the Best Bosses Interrupt Bias on Their Teams
Strategies to foster equity and inclusion
hbr.org
Every #manager can interrupt #bias today. @JoanCWilliams & Sky Mihaylo sum up how in the latest issue of @HarvardBiz.
How the Best Bosses Interrupt Bias on Their Teams
Strategies to foster equity and inclusion
hbr.org
Check out this list of actionable things managers and organizational leaders can do to combat #bias in their organizations. (#belonging > #inclusion) (#equity > #diversity)
How the Best Bosses Interrupt Bias on Their Teams
Strategies to foster equity and inclusion
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