Welcome to Diversity Briefings: 11/1/2010
Volume 1, Issue 8
Group Klopfer Diversity Consulting
Susan Klopfer, editor and publisher
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Today’s New Topics: Gay All-American football player share his story, What's biodiversity got to do with business?, Asian schools breaking away from corporal punishment, Delayed scheduled increases for minimum wage, Managers over-estimate their skills, I-9 form and national immigration debate, What about English-only rules?
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All-American Football Player to Share Personal Diversity Story
Brian Sims, Staff Counsel for Policy and Planning at the Philadelphia Bar Association, speaks on diversity issues based on his background as a gay All-American football player. Sims, who earned a degree in Business, studied at the University of Innsbruck, Austria, before earning his law degree at Michigan State. He serves with a number of leadership organizations regarding Gay and Lesbian rights as well as Advocates for Legal Equality.
Continued -- http://www.wabash.edu/news/displaystory.cfm?news_ID=8445
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What's biodiversity worth to business?Are we at the dawn of a new global strategy for biodiversity protection?
This week, the World Bank has called on governments to include ecosystem valuation on their national accounts, while the Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity (TEEB) study, among other things, calls on businesses to report on biodiversity and ecosystem degradation risks.
Continued -- http://www.guardian.co.uk/sustainable-business/what-s-biodiversity-worth-to-business
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Breaking The Cycle Of Abuse In Schools
A number of Asian countries are moving to abolish corporal punishment. CP is not condoned by most private schools worldwide. The United Nations is advocating a global end to corporal punishment of children. CP was banned in Sweden in 1979. A ban on CP was approved in Greece in 2006.
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http://www.mmegi.bw/index.php?sid=2&aid=6076&dir=2010/November/Monday1
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Delayed Pacific Islands Minimum-Wage Increase: Why Should You Care?
President Obama's signature recently put the finishing touch on a delay of previously-scheduled increases in the minimum wage for American Samoa and the Northern Mariana Islands. Why should we care about this quiet action affecting these far-off places? Because it highlights the impact that boosting a minimum wage has in the longer term.
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http://www.wage-hour.net/post/2010/10/31/Delayed-Pacific-Islands-Increase.aspx
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Bosses who think they're the next Jack Welch might want to reassess their talent level. A new survey of 1,100 front-line managers suggests many are over-estimating their skills, with surprisingly little self-doubt. Seventy-two percent said they never questioned their ability to lead others in their first year as a manager.
To continue click here
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703817604575584764128883620.html
Still More Notes
An obscure federal document called the I-9 form has emerged as a contentious element in the national immigration debate since the Obama administration vowed to go after employers who hire undocumented workers. Employers must fill out and sign the form, which requires them to acknowledge, under penalty of perjury, that they examined documents that allow an employee to work.
The Obama administration a year ago announced plans to ramp up I-9 audits — a shift from the notorious work site raids common under the Bush administration.
To learn more continue here --
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=130968215
Diversity Management Tip of the Day
While Most U.S. Citizens Speak English, Employers Beware of Enforcing English-Only Rules
Have you ever driven through the painted deserts of New Mexico or Arizona while listening to a Navajo or Dine radio station? The eerie drumming and chanting in a language so unfamiliar to non-Native Americans is an experience to treasure.
While neighboring Canada has two official languages and India many, the U.S. has none. Even though most of its citizens speak English (and very few speak languages such as Navajo), this country has never chosen to designate officially just one language.
Take a look at
http://www.submityourarticle.com/articles/Susan-Klopfer-7986/English-127397.php
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