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In Ruth We Trust: How the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act Can Promote Women’s Equal Citizenship and Justice Ginsburg’s Legacy
Two big waves of age discrimination lawsuits are coming: one from the Covid-19 layoffs that started in March and another when older workers try to get back into the workforce and find they are less likely to be hired.
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Long Battle In Store For Laid-Off Workers Trying To Prove Covid-19 Age Discrimination
Nearly 30 leading companies sent an open letter to members of Congress on Tuesday calling for passage of the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act, which would clarify and strengthen existing federal protections and help ensure that employers provide reasonable accommodations to pregnant workers.
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Microsoft, Salesforce And Other U.S. Employers Urge Congress To Strengthen Laws For Pregnant Workers
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Parents may qualify for paid leave, unemployment if schools are closed for the fall
“Even the smallest act of service, the simplest act of kindness, is a way to honor those we lost, a way to reclaim that spirit of unity that followed 9/11.” Barack Obama
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How many weeks of extra $300 unemployment benefits are coming? It's a mystery
“If you look at the history of exclusions to overtime provisions—agricultural worker, domestic workers, until recently home healthcare workers—they’re jobs primarily held by people of color,” said Judy Conti, the government affairs director of the National Employment Law Project, a non-profit organization that advocates for raising the minimum wage. “It is a law that works in a systematically racist fashion and if we don’t recognize that we have failed.”
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The racist origins of US overtime laws
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Read more about ‘Her Honor,' a new painting that reflects the strength and diversity of women judges on Southern Indiana District Court bench.
https://www.theindianalawyer.com/articles/her-honor-new-painting-reflects-strength-diversity-of-women-judges-on-southern-indiana-district-court
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61 years after RBG graduated from law school, the gender bias she faced is less obvious — but just as prevalent
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Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s Indelible Mark On American Business
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Can employers require workers to get flu shots?
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FIFA proposes mandatory maternity leave for women players
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UPS relaxes its restrictions on natural Black hairstyles
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Happy Halloween
While women represent over 50% of graduate students, they earn less and represent only 25% of the C-suite. Women earn less almost immediately out of college, but it's when they have children that the difference really starts to kick in when compared to men and childless women.
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Council Post: Solving The Workplace Gender Equality Problem Post-Pandemic
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Opinion | Why your boss can require you to get a Covid vaccine
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Former Lake County case manager files lawsuit against Indiana Department of Child Services
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Vaccinations and the Workplace
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New $300 weekly federal unemployment benefits start to reach Americans in need
