Month: February 2015

While pockets of tech entrepreneurs can be found throughout the nation, including right here in the Twin Cities, the undisputed center of the tech industry remains Northern California’s Silicon Valley. Interestingly enough, however, recently released reports indicate that the Silicon Valley might also hold the unwelcome distinction of being the undisputed center of gender discrimination …

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In a post last week, we started discussing some of the disciplinary measures that can be meted out by the Minnesota Board of Nursing to nurses that it has determined violated some aspect of the Nurse Practice Act. We also discussed how the board always takes the unique circumstances of each case into consideration when …

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There is no question that you’ve worked very hard to earn your nurse license, hitting the books for countless hours, striving to make connections in the medical community and investing considerable energy into finding the position that’s right for you. That’s why it can be so discouraging and so frightening to learn that you are …

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The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the federal agency tasked with “enforcing federal laws that make it illegal to discriminate against a job applicant or an employee,” has released data outlining the prevalence of charges alleging both retaliation and workplace discrimination for fiscal year 2014. As always, the results were truly eye opening. Breaking the numbers …

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