Tag: Senior Legal Editor

Workplace Violence: Where Would I Hide?

By Susan Schoenfeld, JD, Senior Legal Editor I had only been working for the federal government for about 6 months in 1991 when former postal worker, Thomas McIlvane, walked into the U.S. Post Office in Royal Oak, Michigan, and shot and killed four supervisors. He also wounded five of his former coworkers before killing himself.

Obama and Romney Agree, Affirmative Action Needs to Change

Eye on the Election For today’s topic of likely changes to affirmative action after the election, we turned to Susan Schoenfeld, J.D., Senior Legal Editor for BLR’s human resources and employment law publications. Schoenfeld was formerly an attorney with the Civil Rights Division at the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) in Washington, D.C., where she […]