Travel list serves up advice for cutting costs on the road

What do instant grits, rental wireless phones and college cafeterias have in common? They’re on a list of 20 money-saving travel tips in the latest issue of Arthur Frommer’s Budget Travel magazine.

Be sure to bring along instant grits, oatmeal or other hot cereals if you stay at a hotel that doesn’t offer complimentary breakfast. If there’s a coffeemaker in your room, use it to heat the water.

If you’re traveling abroad and need to call home frequently, consider renting before you go a wireless phone that can be used in the country you’re visiting. The magazine says it costs $70 to rent one through www.planetfone.com.

Also, many college and university cafeterias serve inexpensive, all-you-can-eat food and many welcome visitors to dine there for prices that generally are lower than those at many diners and fast-food restaurants. When you arrive on campus, say you’re visiting and ask for directions to the cafeteria.

Other tips include bringing along a small electric immersion coil to make hot beverages and buying ski lift tickets before you leave home.

Survey: Sexual harassment still a problem in workplace

Many women continue to confront sexual harassment at work. A recent study of 1,000 Americans by the Employment Law Alliance found 21 percent of female respondents said they have encountered sexual harassment on the job, compared with 7 percent of males.

“The poll results confirm the fact that sexual harassment is still very much a fact of life in the American workplace,” said Stephen J. Hirschfeld, chief executive officer of the San Francisco-based coalition of labor and employment lawyers.

Still, he said, it’s significant that 85 percent of those said they had not been sexually harassed at work, suggesting U.S. employers were doing a much better job at curtailing the behavior.

Meanwhile, 20 percent of the respondents said they knew of a romance between a supervisor and a subordinate at work and 66 percent believed romances on the job led to favoritism and poor morale. At the same time, 66 percent said they considered relationships at work personal and should not be regulated by employers.

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