Workforce Management
SHRM Members for Transparency plans to air its grievances following the association’s failure to respond to repeated invitations for a summit.
June 10, 2011
Frustration is growing among a handful of past presidents and board chairs of the Society for Human Resource Management who have been calling for a meeting with the industry association’s leaders to discuss recent board decisions and concerns about the future of the organization.
The splinter group, called SHRM Members for Transparency, recently announced a June 26 press conference to air its grievances.
Full Story: http://www.workforce.com/section/news/article/protest-group-calls-press-conference-opening-day-shrm.php
See also: Dissident Group Sounds Off on Perceived SHRM Show Snub, Workforce Management, http://www.workforce.com/section/hr-management/feature/dissident-group-sounds-off-perceived-shrm-show-snub/index.html
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Sunday, June 19, 2011
Monday, December 1, 2008
Maryland prepares to repeal a bad law from the civil rights era
The Baltimore Sun
By Laura Smitherman laura.smitherman@baltsun.com
November 30, 2008
An effort is under way to repeal a Jim Crow-era law that makes it illegal in Maryland to receive any kind of payment, including bus fare, for participating in a protest against racial discrimination.The law was aimed at discouraging Freedom Riders from traveling to the state to agitate against segregation and racism during the height of the civil rights movement in the 1960s.As part of a compromise that through the lens of history appears unseemly, lawmakers inserted the provision into an anti-discrimination law after rioting in Cambridge focused national attention on the Eastern Shore town.Although the law has never been enforced, Maryland Attorney General Douglas F. Gansler, in an opinion this month, concluded that courts would likely find that the 44-year-old statutedoesn't pass constitutional muster under the First Amendment.Legislative leaders plan to introduce legislation to repeal the law during the General Assembly session that begins in January, and Gov. Martin O'Malley's office said he would support the bill.If not for the work of a committee assigned the yeoman's job of reviewing that particular section of the Maryland annotated code, the law might have remained in obscurity.
Full story: http://www.baltimoresun.com/services/newspaper/printedition/sunday/ideas/bal-id.repeal30nov30,0,5709774.story
By Laura Smitherman laura.smitherman@baltsun.com
November 30, 2008
An effort is under way to repeal a Jim Crow-era law that makes it illegal in Maryland to receive any kind of payment, including bus fare, for participating in a protest against racial discrimination.The law was aimed at discouraging Freedom Riders from traveling to the state to agitate against segregation and racism during the height of the civil rights movement in the 1960s.As part of a compromise that through the lens of history appears unseemly, lawmakers inserted the provision into an anti-discrimination law after rioting in Cambridge focused national attention on the Eastern Shore town.Although the law has never been enforced, Maryland Attorney General Douglas F. Gansler, in an opinion this month, concluded that courts would likely find that the 44-year-old statutedoesn't pass constitutional muster under the First Amendment.Legislative leaders plan to introduce legislation to repeal the law during the General Assembly session that begins in January, and Gov. Martin O'Malley's office said he would support the bill.If not for the work of a committee assigned the yeoman's job of reviewing that particular section of the Maryland annotated code, the law might have remained in obscurity.
Full story: http://www.baltimoresun.com/services/newspaper/printedition/sunday/ideas/bal-id.repeal30nov30,0,5709774.story
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