Michigan women with health insurance can find themselves paying up to $65 a month for a prescription to prevent an unwanted pregnancy. Meanwhile, their insured male counterparts can pick up a free prescription for Viagra. Alexa Stanard writes: Michigan is one of 23 states that doesn’t require insurance companies to cover birth control pills. However, [...]
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Pregnancy, Your Weight, and Your Job
Very informative, and authoritative. Deborah Kotz writes about Pregnancy, Your Weight, and Your Job on US News Are you planning to get pregnant in the near future? How would I have responded if my prospective boss had asked me this some 13 years ago during a job interview for a medical journal? I did, in [...]
Abuse of immigrants in focus
Esther Wu writes for Dallas News about abuses among the immigrant communities. She says, there is a high rate number of domestic violence among immigrants, because some immigrant women may feel helpless since they lack communication skills, or their husbands may hold their passports. Officials say Texas is a major destination for victims of human [...]
Reviewing Law: Family care-giving obligations
By Astrid Rachelle Fiano, Esq. New York Times Magazine has carried an excellent article discussing the potential new cause of action in employment discrimination law: family-care giving obligations. The article provides insight into the necessity for such a law (especially for those not protected by the Family Medical and Leave Act) and the drawbacks as [...]
A Victory for Working Moms in NY
The New York State Legislature recently passed a bill requiring employers to allow “nursing moms to express breast milk†while at work. What’s more, the bill, awaiting a signature from Governor Eliott Spitzer, will also require employers to make reasonable efforts to provide a private space for women to pump. The passage of the bill [...]
Billable Hour Harms Female Lawyers
While the practice of billing by the hour has been long debated in the legal world, a group of lawyers has recently called for an end to the “billable hour†for a new reason—because the practice disproportionately harms female lawyers. Women, they say, become “discouraged†by the fact that they simply cannot work the long [...]
Cash for Kids: When will America follow suit?
Companies including Panasonic, Cannon, and Sharp are paying their employees for having children. The birth rate in Japan is low and Japanese employers are feeling pressure from the Japanese Government. This appears to be the complete opposite of what is going on in the United States. Many employers in the U.S. appear to frown upon [...]
Working Families Time to Care Act on the Anvil
It’s about time! The New York State legislature is considering a piece of legislation, the Working Families Time to Care Act, that would allow workers as much as 12 weeks paid leave to care for family members in need (like newborns, the sick or elderly, children and grandchildren, among others). Only two other states have [...]
EEOC Issues New Guidance on Family Responsibilities Discrimination
EEOC Issues New Guidance on Family Responsibilities Discrimination and they are here: The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has published new guidance on how agency-enforced laws apply to workers with caregiving responsibilities. The agency says it is issuing the guidance as a proactive measure to address an emerging discrimination issue in the workplace. The [...]
“Boss, I’m pregnant!”
Planning your maternity leave? Here are 10 ways to protect your rights at work, before and after your baby’s birth. FAMILY PHYSICIAN Nicolle Overstreet, D.O., was fired on Oct. 10, 2007, nine days after she told the owner of the medical practice that she was pregnant. “I was stunned,” says Overstreet. She knew her boss’s [...]