Religion, Hobby Lobby argued, ought to work like a trump card, throw it down and it out-ranks all other rights that might also be in play, such as women's reproductive liberty or workplace equality.
I will be among the first and most effusive flingers of poo at these monsters whose loathing for life has seen the dwindling of workplace rights and personal liberties but I will not earmark a particular turd for a woman yet to prove that she is as awful as, say, Kevin Andrews.
Pervasive anti-Muslim and anti-Arab discrimination impacts people's lives at the intersection of workplace rights and civil liberties.
This is a game changer for religious liberty in the workplace, especially for turbaned and bearded Sikh-Americans who have faced increased violence since 9/11, are frequently mistaken for members of Al Qaeda or the Taliban, and are subject to greater levels of employment discrimination.
Thus, Section 7 of the Wagner Act, growing from New Deal organizing, created "a kind of rudimentary system of civil liberties within the workplace" which in turn allowed further action by workers.
Yet over the past eight years, U.S. policies have sought to criminalize this population, raid their homes and workplaces, suspend their civil liberties, put them in chains, and ultimately deport them.
Jonathon should be able to practice and play his sport with the freedom and liberty that is afforded workers in the workplace.
Even before the Santa Clara case, corporations were asserting that a God-given "liberty to contract" allowed them to ignore laws regulating the workplace.
The outrage that small-government types voice in response to any infringement on individual liberties suddenly vanishes when those infringements happen in a workplace.
According to Boston-based Liberty Mutual, the leading private provider of workers' compensation insurance in the United States, workplace injuries cost employers nearly $1 billion per week in payments to injured employees and their medical care providers.
Worktimesurfer asks the Liberty Clinic what our rights are in respect to CCTV monitoring at work: My workplace has a CCTV camera that covers the entrance to our area of the floor from the inside of our area.
