Last year, New York City passed a law protecting pregnant workers from getting fired. Unfortunately, employers are trying to ignore it and are firing workers when they get pregnant. There is hope for those workers. For workers who get pregnant in most of the country,...
pregnancy discrimination
Given that Wal-Mart's business model is borrowed heavily from the supply chain management system pioneered by the same textile industry that brought you the Triangle Fire and Rana Plaza collapse,.
While yesterday provided a significant victory for progressive politics (and general 'right thing to do'-ness), the forces of moral fascism reactionary citizenry continue unabated. In Kansas, a new licensing law.
Way back in 1978, Congress passed the Pregnancy Discrimination Act to undo the damage wrought by the Supreme Court in Geduldig v. Aiello, in which the Court infamously (foot)noted that:The California insurance program does not exclude anyone from benefit eligibility because of gender but merely...