Employment Protection and Domestic Violence: Addressing Abuse in the Labor Grievance Process

The effects of domestic violence are not limited to the home environment. Its effects are felt in employment when abused employees are absent from work and when violent incidents erupt in the workplace. For example, a bruised employee might be too injured and embarrassed to attend work, or an estranged spouse might stalk and harass a victim on the job. Another issue arises in that employers often discipline victims of domestic violence for absenteeism and incidents of violence that occur in the workplace. Discipline of union members is governed by collective bargaining agreements and subject to the labor grievance process. These grievances often end in arbitration, where the union represents the battered employee. Because of this occurrence, employers, unions, and arbitrators must be educated about domestic violence to ensure victims of abuse receive adequate job protection

Layered alkali rhodium oxides A<SUB>x</SUB>RhO<SUB>2</SUB>: topotactic solvation, exchange, and redox reactions

The intercalation/deintercalation properties of the layered oxides LiRhO<SUB>2</SUB>, NaRhO<SUB>2</SUB>, and KRhO<SUB>2</SUB> have been investigated with respect to redox and exchange processes. The chemical reactivity was found to be strongly dependent upon the alkali cation. Only KRhO<SUB>2</SUB> is able to form hydrated phases and to undergo quantitative K<SUP>+</SUP>/H<SUP>+</SUP> exchange, resulting in the formation of the new layered hydrogen bronze HRhO<SUB>2</SUB>. HRhO<SUB>2</SUB> has a limited phase range up to H<SUB>1.1</SUB>RhO<SUB>2</SUB> and exhibits no Br&#246;nsted acid character. LiRhO<SUB>2</SUB> and NaRhO<SUB>2</SUB> both show a limited cycling range in aprotic Li<SUP>+</SUP> or Na<SUP>+</SUP> electrolytes beyond which irreversible lattice disorder is observed. The origin of the significant differences in topotactic reactivity between layered dichalcogenide and oxide systems is discussed

Fullerene. Technologieanalyse

Fullerenes are carbon clusters (C_n, n=60, 70, 76, 78, 84...960) of spherical configurations or of cylindrical configuration (nanotubes, buckytubes), which possess a large range of interesting physical and chemical properties. An overview is given on preparation/production, properties, modification and chemical reactivity of fullerenes, as well as on research and development activities in Germany, USA and Japan. The broad field of potential applications include new functionalized monomers, photoresits, materials for nano- and microelectronics, adsorption and catalysis, supraconductors, sensors, production of diamonds, lubricants, materials for non-linear optics and solar cells, effective electron traps, joint materials. (WEN)SIGLEAvailable from TIB Hannover: RR 4037(2),2 / FIZ - Fachinformationszzentrum Karlsruhe / TIB - Technische InformationsbibliothekBundesministerium fuer Forschung und Technologie (BMFT), Bonn (Germany)2.ed.DEGerman