Obama won’t order ban on gay bias by employers
President Obama disappointed and vexed gay supporters on Wednesday with his decision, conveyed to activists by a senior adviser, not to sign an executive order banning discrimination by employers with federal contracts. The executive order, which activists said had support from the Labor and Justice Departments, would have applied to gay, bisexual and transgender people working for or seeking employment from federal contractors.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/12/us/politics/obama-wont-order-ban-on-gay-bias-by-employers.html?_r=1&ref=us
Federal government disagrees with Ann Romney: raising children not ‘work’
Ann Romney may believe that focusing exclusively on raising children counts as work, and the majority of Americans may agree with her, but that’s not how the federal government sees it. As far as Uncle Sam is concerned, if you’re poor, deciding to stay at home and rear your children is not an option. Thanks to welfare reform, recipients of federal benefits must prove to a caseworker that they have performed, over the course of a week, a certain number of hours of “work activity.”
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/04/12/ann-romney-hilary-rosen_n_1420976.html
Calif. court: Managers don’t have to ensure lunch breaks
In a case that affects thousands of businesses and millions of workers, the California Supreme Court ruled Thursday that employers are under no obligation to ensure that workers take legally mandated lunch and rest breaks.
http://www.manufacturing.net/news/2012/04/calif-court-managers-dont-have-to-ensure-lunch-breaks
Consumers willing to sacrifice for worker welfare
With the National Consumers League’s newly commissioned survey, conducted by the Opinion Research Corporation, consumers have once again shown that they feel strongly (87 percent) about the products in their lives and they do not want products to be manufactured in unfair, overly harsh, or dangerous working conditions – and they are willing to make some sacrifices for it. Nearly three-quarters (73 percent) of responders agreed that they would be “willing to wait longer to get the latest electronic gadgets if [they] knew it was produced under humane working conditions.”
http://savvyconsumer.wordpress.com/2012/04/11/consumers-willing-to-sacrifice-for-worker-welfare/
Rockwall teacher fired for out-of-wedlock pregnancy
Cathy Samford, a volleyball coach and science teacher, was fired from Heritage Christian Academy for getting pregnant and not being married, the school acknowledged.
http://www.wfaa.com/news/education/Teacher-fired-for-out-of-wedlock-pregnancy-146926755.html
