Walmart is facing potentially the largest class action suit ever brought against a company. Estimates run as high as one million employees involved although Walmart has stated that it thinks it is “only” half a million. Walmart is now in the process of trying to get its case tossed out of court. In its appeal [...]
Andrew Malcolm wrote this in the LA Times‘ “The Top of the Ticket” on August 13, 2010: The Milwaukee Teachers’ Education Association has gone to court asking a judge to order the financially strapped school board to reinstate coverage for Viagra, Levitra, Cialis and other erectile dysfunction drugs in union members’ healthcare plans. The union [...]
Maybe it’s in the water. Maybe it’s the heat. Whatever it is, it’s bringing out the worst in the people of Arizona. I didn’t even realize that the governor, Jan Brewer, signed a bill into law last September denying benefits to domestic partners of state employees. The new law, which takes effect October 1, redefines [...]
In 2002, a satirical novel by Emma McLaughlin and Nicola Kraus ended up on the New York Times bestseller list, which probably didn’t sit too well with all the New Yorkers who had ever employed nannies and/or domestic workers. The book, The Nanny Diaries (which was later made into a movie starring Scarlett Johannson), was [...]
Imagine you come from an area in Mexico where hundreds of women have been murdered over the last couple of decades. Or that you live in a neighborhood where you have to worry about gunfire as you take your children to school. You want a better life for yourself and your children. You decide to [...]
Thanks to Fertile Feminism for posting these. For more information (detailed tables) go to the Wikipedia article on “Parental Leave.”
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