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Violence at work Teacher unions: Children terrified by active shooter drills
The nation’s two largest teachers unions are calling on schools to revise or eliminate active shooter drillsBy PAT EATON-ROBB Associated PressFebruary 13, 2020, 2:50 PM4 min readHARTFORD, Conn. — The nation’s two largest teachers unions want schools to revise or eliminate active shooter drills, asserting Tuesday that they can harm students’ mental health and that…
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Workplace discrimination Coronavirus, Harvey Weinstein case, Astros cheating scandal: 5 things to know Thursday
Editors, USA TODAY Published 3:34 a.m. ET Feb. 13, 2020 | Updated 6:08 a.m. ET Feb. 13, 2020CLOSECoronavirus: Cruise ship stuck in limbo finally anchorsA cruise ship that was turned away from multiple ports in Asia over coronavirus fears finally anchored Thursday off Cambodia, which is checking the health of its over 2,200 passengers and crew.…
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Employee rights They worked at a Catholic hospital for decades. Then it took away their pension
St. Clare’s Hospital was everything to Jerry and Kathy Adach.They married after meeting at the Schenectady, New York area hospital, where both worked, in the early ’80s. Their two daughters were born there. The couple, who devoted a combined 59 years of service to the facility, had expected to retire with a good pension from…
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Sexual harassment 3rd woman accuses Michigan lawmaker of sexual harassment
A third woman has accused a Michigan state legislator of sexual harassmentJanuary 26, 2020, 5:31 PM2 min readLANSING, Mich. — A third woman in two weeks has publicly come forward with sexual harassment allegations against a Michigan state legislator, according to a published report Sunday. Melissa Osborn, who works as a regulatory affairs specialist for…
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Violence at work Youth parole officer kept job amid child abuse investigation
CONCORD, N.H. — A former employee of a New Hampshire youth detention center continued working with children in a state job for nine months after police began investigating allegations that he held a boy down while colleagues raped him in 1998. James Woodlock went on leave from his position as a juvenile probation and parole…
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Workplace discrimination Protecting afros, twists, braids: Maryland county becomes first to ban hair discrimination
Chelsey Cox, USA TODAY Published 10:43 p.m. ET Feb. 6, 2020 | Updated 10:48 p.m. ET Feb. 6, 2020CLOSELawmakers in Maryland’s most populous county made an historic expansion to its human rights legislation on Thursday by banning discrimination based on hairstyle. The Montgomery County Council unanimously voted to pass the Creating a Respectful and Open World for Natural Hair (CROWN)…
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Sexual harassment Women vying for Oscars salute their progress, snubs aside
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. — The mood at Diane von Furstenberg’s lunch honoring this year’s female Oscar contenders could have been downbeat, given the shutout of women directors for Sunday’s awards. Instead, it was celebratory and defiant. The 30-plus nominees who gathered at von Furstenberg’s home, tucked into elegant and secluded grounds, cheered as the women…
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Violence at work Mexico sees rise in gangs, vigilantes recruiting children
One day after a vigilante group revealed that it was using children as young as 8 as “recruits” for armed defense patrols, Mexico’s president said that drug cartels too are recruiting ever-younger kidsJanuary 24, 2020, 8:03 AM3 min readMEXICO CITY — One day after a vigilante group revealed that it was using children as young…
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Employee rights Elizabeth Warren calls out Mike Bloomberg for using NDAs—here’s how they work
Sen. Elizabeth Warren has brought national attention to nondisclosure agreements this week, criticizing billionaire businessman and former New York City mayor Mike Bloomberg for his alleged history of inappropriate behavior toward women and using NDAs to keep employees from speaking out.Bloomberg initially declined to release employees from these contracts, but has since changed course. On…
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WORKPLACE SAFETY The most radical 2020 candidate
Julian Zelizer, a CNN political analyst, is a professor of history and public affairs at Princeton University and author of the forthcoming book, “Burning Down the House: Newt Gingrich, the Fall of a Speaker, and the Rise of the New Republican Party.” Follow …