Word: lawyerly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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That doesn't mean we can't complain about it. "Money doesn't go as far as it used to," says Sandra Ambrookian, 43, a medical-supply saleswoman from Milwaukee. She's relaxing in L.A. after a vacation in Palm Desert, Calif. Drinking with her is lawyer David Adelman, 41, divorced and in debt but looking great. "I think people are pretty good at hiding the fact that times are not as good as we'd like them to be," he says. Sean Love, a 26-year-old movie post-production worker, couldn't agree more. He smiles. He knows...
...what worries employers, especially small-business owners without human-resources departments or staff attorneys, is that one worker's run-of-the-mill bad attitude may be another's debilitating schizophrenia. "This is fraught with undesirable pitfalls," says Don Livingston, a Washington lawyer who is former general counsel at the EEOC. "It calls on employers to make enigmatic distinctions between personality traits and personality disorders. Mental-health professionals often find this an impossible task, and now it's being put before factory supervisors." Henry Saveth, an attorney at Foster Higgins, which represents leading corporations in employment disputes, is concerned that...
...ideas about suing, and there will always be the occasional surprising decision. Two years ago, for instance, a severely depressed attorney who worked for the San Francisco utility Pacific Gas & Electric asked for shorter work weeks and a transfer to a more understanding supervisor. According to the employee's lawyer, he filed suit when the company refused, and talks broke down over the plaintiff's request for positive evaluations should the company rehire him. A court-appointed arbitrator ordered the utility to pay $1.1 million to the plaintiff. (Federal law limits awards to $50,000 for an employee...
...talking about it and coping with it. "Ideally, if you are an employer and you try to use this guidance for problem solving, you are going to avoid litigation most of the time," says Gary Phelan, the co-chairman of the disability-rights committee of the National Employment Lawyer's Association...
DIED. ART HANES, 80, die-hard segregationist Southern mayor; in the city he ruled for a single, notorious term, Birmingham, Ala. In 1962 Hanes shut down Birmingham's parks rather than open them to blacks; in 1968 he became James Earl Ray's first lawyer...