Posts Tagged ‘AFL-CIO’

Tattoos, Piercings and Body Modifications

Monday, December 20th, 2010 by Tim Giehll

One of the most important parts of a dynamic workplace is diversity – a number of different views, opinions, lifestyles, and characters working together in harmony. In the current day and age, a workplace issue is starting to arise more and more and that is the place of body modification in the workplace. Body modification is a broad term encompassing all types of piercings and tattoos in a work environment.  Here are a few different suggestions of how to handle this growing trend:

Bloomberg BusinessWeek Stuck In Past

Tuesday, February 16th, 2010 by Tim Giehll

In the January 18, 2010 issue of Bloomberg BusinessWeek, writers Peter Coy, Michelle Conlin, Moira Herbst and Carol Matlack penned an article titled “The Disposable Worker”. This negative article painted a picture of temporary workers as abused and undervalued by the corporations who work with them. These writers could not be further from the truth.