Women's Rights in the Workplace

Women's Rights in the Workplace - Why You Hate Work - 06/02/14

70% of American employees feel that work is a dispiriting and depleting experience.

Demands from the workplace, home, and life in general are pushing more and more people to burnout.  Join Women's Rights in the Workplace Advocates Jack Tuckner and Deborah O'Rell as they chat with Joy Murphy, ACC, an executive and life coach specializing in leadership development and personal growth, as they discuss the reasons for this dire situation and what steps beleaguered employees can take to regain some control over their stressed out/burned out, hair-falling-out lives.

Women's Rights in the Workplace - Bullying - 05/19/14

Are you suffering from severe workplace bullying?  Join Jack Tuckner and Deborah O'Rell as they visit with Professor David Yamada, a tenured Professor of Law and Founding Director of the New Workplace Institute at Suffolk University Law School in Boston.  Professor Yamada is an internationally recognized authority on the legal aspects of workplace bullying (http://newworkplace.wordpress.com), and he is author of model anti-bullying legislation dubbed the Healthy Workplace Bill, that has become the template for law reform efforts across the country.  Learn what bullying is, who's doing it, who's targeted, and what you can do about! 

Women's Rights in the Workplace - FAQ - 05/12/14

Join women's workplace rights advocates Jack Tuckner and Deborah O'Rell as they cover frequently asked employment law questions such, I was wrongfully terminated, why do lawyers keep telling me there's no such thing?  Can my employer really drug test me any time it wants?  I was fired out of the blue with no warning and all my work evaluations have been great for 10 years. Is that legal?  I was fired for theft but I'm not guilty and I can prove it.  Why don't I have a case?
I am a female who found out my male peers are making considerably more than I am.  What can I do?   Listen and learn what it takes to successfully navigate the treacherous waters of today's American workplace with the NYC women's rights law team from Tuckner, Sipser.

Women's Rights in the Workplace - Don't Quit - 05/05/14

What is workplace sexual harassment?  Will you know what to do when it happens to you?   Boys may continue to be boys, but sexual harassment is still a serious civil rights violation, and illegal under federal law.  Join Jack Tuckner and Deborah O'Rell as they walk you through a step by step guide on what you need to do to protect yourself optimally when confronted with unwelcome sexual attention at work.  First step, Don't Quit!

Women's Rights in the Workplace - Ruth Raisfeld - 04/21/14

Join Women’s Rights in the Workplace Advocates Jack Tuckner and Deborah O’Rell as they welcome the witty and accomplished Ruth Raisfeld, Esq. (http://www.rdradr.com), veteran attorney, negotiator, mediator and arbitrator, as she provides negotiating tips for women (and men).  Want to earn what you’re worth?  What to consider, how to prepare for, and what to say and do when meeting with your employer to ask for enhanced compensation.

Women's Rights in the Workplace - Equal Pay for Equal Work - 04/14/14

   Join Women's Rights in the Workplace advocates Jack Tuckner and Deborah O'Rell as they rant about the unsurprising but still disappointing Republican vote blocking of the Paycheck Fairness Act last week--yet again--to deprive women of equal pay for equal work.  Republicans love the ladies ("they take women to dinner, they buy women diamonds and open car doors for women," according to Rush Limbaugh), they just don't want them to earn what they're worth.  Learn why women still earn only 77 cents for every dollar a man earns for comparable work, and why the Equal Pay Act of 1963 and the Lily Ledbetter Act have substantial loopholes that render those laws insufficient to eradicate gender pay disparity for good.

Women's Rights in the Workplace - Daniel O'Donnell - 04/07/14

Join the Women’s Rights in the Workplace Advocates as they chat with Daniel O’Donnell, the first openly gay man elected to the NY State Assembly, where he has been a progressive voice for all New Yorkers since 2002.  Assemblyman O’Donnell was the prime sponsor of several trailblazing bills, most notably the Marriage Equality Act, a bill O’Donnell led to passage in the Assembly five times before it was finally signed into law in June 2011.  He was also the prime sponsor of New York’s anti-bullying legislation, the Dignity for All Students Act, which requires public schools in New York to combat bias-based bullying and harassment.  And he has been a consistent leader and zealous opponent of the irresponsible hydraulic fracturing industry, protecting all New Yorkers from that ecologically invasive and dangerous process.

Women's Rights in the Workplace - A Better Balance - 03/31/14

Celebrate New York City’s brand new earned paid sick time law with women’s rights advocates Jack Tuckner and Deborah O’Rell as they interview Sherry Leiwant, Esq., Co-President and Co-Founder of, A Better Balance (www.abetterbalance.org/web/), a legal team whose mission is to promote equality and expand choices for men and women at all income levels so they may care for their families without sacrificing their economic security.  Sherry and her colleagues at ABB were instrumental in the drafting and passing of NYC’s paid sick time law, which guarantees up to 40 hours of paid sick time per year for an additional 1.2 million people working in NYC.  

 

Women's Rights in the Workplace - Global War on Women - 03/24/14

Step up and fight for your right to be equal, along with Women's Rights in the Workplace advocates Jack Tuckner and Deborah O'Rell, as they discuss the global War on Women, and then consult on-air with a female bartender calling to ask how to handle a sexually harassing male manager.

Women's Rights in the Workplace - Anita and Clarence - 03/18/14

Continuing the commemoration of Women's History Month, join the lively discussion as women's workplace rights advocates Jack Tuckner & Deborah O'Rell discuss the progress of sexual harassment law in the 23 years since Anita Hill testified against Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas.