By SARAH E. NEEDLEMAN The Wall Street Journal Entrepreneurs focused on growing their businesses are sometimes caught off guard when employees start growing their families. Sendero Business Services LP, a management-consulting firm in Dallas, wasn’t prepared when a manager became pregnant in 2007 and asked what its maternity-leave policy entailed, says co-owner and partner Ruth [...]
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UNIFEM and NCRW to Raise Awareness About Violence Against Women
The US National Committee for UNIFEM and the National Council for Research on Women Join Forces on a National Conference to Promote Efforts Aimed at Ending Violence against Women. The conference is a collaborative initiative between two preeminent organizations working towards ending this global pandemic. The US National Committee for the United Nations Development Fund [...]
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In the chaos of conflict and disaster, women and girls can suffer unspeakable violence, exploitation and abuse. The odds are against them as they struggle to survive and protect themselves and their families. Urge Congressional leaders to support the International Violence Against Women Act and ensure that Congress passes it without delay. This legislation will [...]
Long Island Bar Fires Pregnant Bartender
ABC News reports on Jennifer Paviglianiti’s charges of discrimination with the United States Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC). Bartender in Topless Bar Says She Was Discriminated Against for Being Pregnant By MARY KATHRYN BURKE and BRENNAN MCCORD When Jennifer Paviglianiti, 29, of Centereach, N.Y., discovered she was pregnant, she hoped to wait until the three-month [...]
Costs of Caregiver Discrimination Increasing for Employers
New Report Says Family Responsibilities Discrimination Cases on the Rise, Cost More Treating employees less favorably because they have family caregiving obligations can land employers in court and result in significant liability, a new report by the Center for WorkLife Law concludes. Litigation aimed at bias against U.S. workers who care for children [...]
Markowitz grilled in discrimination suit
YourNabe.com By Thomas Tracy Borough President Marty Markowitz was put on the hot seat Friday when he was grilled for nearly four hours about a discrimination lawsuit filed against him back in 2007. The deposition, which was held in Borough Hall, was the first major hurdle in the suit filed by former Borough President Communications [...]
Time Off Work For A Breakup?
By Kiri Blakeley, FORBES You can take time off for health or child care issues, but where’s the corporate understanding about work disruption due to relationship turmoil? When news broke that Sandra Bullock’s husband, Jesse James, was allegedly having an affair with a tattooed biker model, Bullock pulled out of the London premiere of her [...]