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5 | Washington A Reversal, Again, on Abortion Gag Rule President Barack Obama restored funding to aid groups that offer abortions or abortion advice, undoing a 1984 ban criticized by pro-choice groups. Obama said denying aid undermined "safe and effective voluntary family-planning in developing countries." It was the third...
"Because virtually all employees are women, the previous owner of our company set a weekly scheme of 33 hours worked at 35 hours of pay so we could spend more time with children and families," says Estelle, a cosmetics sales woman in a Paris store who asks that her last...
Other changes, however, could be more painful. The Postal Service has frozen officers' and executives' pay and cut back on travel. Unlike competitors FedEx and UPS, the agency is hoping to avoid shedding jobs. Still, since September, 156,000 employees at the nation's largest employer - from executives on down...
Morton says the ICE audits, which involve individual checks of employee-citizenship documentation, are intentionally broad and part of an effort to get companies to self-regulate. At the same time, the Department of Homeland Security has been marketing the voluntary use of the E-Verify program, an Internet-based...
Voluntary Madness: My Year Lost and Found in the Loony Bin By Norah Vincent Viking; 304 pages