Thursday, May 11, 2006

Rallying for Causes:

Rallying aroung good causes is a decent reminder of how lucky the rest of us are. We live in a diverse society and now with same sex marriage there is no reason why gays should be afraid to stick up for their rights if they have to, including the workplace. But there shouldn't even be issues that would escalate to not accepting employees because of their orientation.
I don't see the connetion between gays and moms with breast cancer, could this be the reason behind the humouristic slant of the author's title?Does there have to be a relationship between the two? If it is a wuestion of timing, the calendar just has so many days and places like Montreal are big enough to hold more than one rally at the same time. I am not for soliciting employees to contribute for the cancer fund at the workplace in exchange for denims. I think that if the employer wanted to go easy on the dress code than he should for just any valid cause that needs donations and breast cancer is but one. There is a limit to how much employees should be solicited too especially if the return on their contributions is low and working conditions at some locations pitiful. Employers should match employee donations often enough they don't.

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