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School board denies stepmother time off
Employer under fire after using legal loophole
A white man claims he was fired as manager of a suburban Panera Bread shop for repeatedly having a black man work the cash register instead of putting him in a less ...
A Philadelphia mother was left jobless Tuesday after she took time off work to donate a kidney to her dying son and was fired during her absence.Claudia Rendon did n...
The Obama administration proposed new rules Monday to help military families care for service members when they are injured or called to active duty on short notice....
The Senate is opening debate on legislation to ban insider financial trading by members of Congress, though the Securities and Exchange Commission says lawmakers alr...
The Senate is opening debate on legislation to ban insider financial trading by members of Congress, though the Securities and Exchange Commission says lawmakers alr...
While Congress is moving to explicitly apply insider trading laws to its members, lawmakers are exempt from provisions of other federal laws.In 1995, the House and S...
At times, it seemed Kennedy and his abundant energy would last for years. But last May, he suffered a seizure at his Cape Cod home and was diagnosed with a malignant...
President Obama is like the quail hunter who frantically blasts away in all directions as birds sail unpredictably from the underbrush. Last week he tracked Iranian ...
Americans often take pride in ways their nation differs from others. But one distinction — lack of a nationwide policy of paid maternity leave — is cited in a new re...
WASHINGTON (AP) — A conservative think tank and criminal defense lawyers are forming an unusual alliance to try to get Congress to quit writing criminal laws so loos...
The Labor Department is poised to announce new regulations this week that order U.S. employers to give gay employees equal treatment under the law, allowing those wo...
Can men legally take time off after becoming fathers?
Former Detroit Lions great and Hall of Famer Lem Barney filed a discrimination lawsuit Friday against a Detroit health system, alleging he was fired because of his a...
Independent Women's Forum executive director Sabrina Schaeffer on women balancing home and work.
A new report card on the nation's family leave policies is out, and the news is grim for new parents. The report, titled Expecting Better , gives every state and the...
Reps. Engel, Fleming, Price and Garamendi weigh in
President Obama says the health care law makes coverage more affordable, but the insurance industry reacted to the Supreme Court decision by saying that the ruling w...