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...very hard." Greg Rasin, a partner with Proskauer Rose who advises employers on benefits, points out that at the very least, the Families and Medical Leave Act compels employers with more than 50 workers to provide up to 12 weeks of unpaid leave. Legal bonus: offering adoption benefits might shield them from lawsuits by workers seeking parity with those who receive maternity leave...
...competing paparazzi to team up. Especially when the subject is working very hard to remain elusive. That's what's brought the paparazzi pack out here tonight in hooded sweatshirts and discreet earpieces as they maintain radio contact with one another in search of gaps in the protective shield provided by Brangelina bodyguards...
...Abramoff scandal. It's the scandal-free corporate welfare, tax breaks and other Big Government goodies for industry. Baroody is a family man, a policy wonk whose father founded a think tank. But he's been working the Washington henhouse since 1970, and he has fought to shield manufacturers from claims and fines. Giving a NAM lobbyist power over consumer safety would have been like giving a child power over bedtime. It's only a problem if you expect enforcement...
Jarrett T. Barrios ’90—a progressive Mass. state senator whose district includes Cambridge and other nearby towns—said yesterday afternoon that he will resign from the Senate in July to become president of the Blue Cross Blue Shield Foundation, capping off a political career that has spanned nearly a decade and included stints in both houses of the legislature...
...Still, at NAM, Baroody has fought to shield manufacturers from safety claims and fines over products ranging from asbestos to tobacco. That is, of course, his job. Most of the Administration's former lobbyists haven't broken any rules; they've just sided with industry against consumer activists and environmentalists. That's their job. Hiring a NAM lobbyist to oversee consumer safety regulation is a bit like letting a child set his own bedtime. It's only a problem if you expect enforcement...