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Last week Myerson's political star dimmed considerably as she found herself embroiled in the scandals that have rocked New York over the past year. In a statement, Myerson, 62, announced that she is taking a 90-day unpaid leave from her $83,000-a-year job during a special city probe of her activities. Myerson also disclosed that she is the subject of a federal grand jury investigation into the activities of her companion, City Contractor Carl Capasso. Capasso, 41, was indicted the next day on charges that he evaded paying $774,600 in corporate and personal taxes...
When she left her work as a receptionist at the California Federal Savings and Loan Association office in West Los Angeles to have her first baby, in 1982, Lillian Garland figured she would simply take a short, unpaid disability leave and return to her job, a right guaranteed by state law. But there were complications. Garland's baby girl was delivered by Cesarean section, and her doctor prescribed a three-month leave. When she returned to Cal Fed, Garland found that her position had been filled. "I didn't know what to do," she says. Unemployed and unable...
Angered by this string of events, Garland filed a complaint against Cal Fed, citing a 1978 California law that requires employers with 15 or more workers to offer up to four months' unpaid leave for pregnant women with the promise of the same or a comparable job upon their return. Cal Fed responded with its own suit in federal court against the California law, arguing that it conflicted with the Pregnancy Discrimination Act, a measure passed by Congress in 1978 that outlaws discrimination on the basis of pregnancy. The California statute, claimed Cal Fed, discriminates against men by requiring special...
...Levick said she was "pleased that women have retained benefits for disability," but added that the next step was to extend such leaves to fathers as well. A bill requiring this type of "parental leave" will be introduced next month. It would allow up to 18 weeks of unpaid leave with job security for both new mothers and new fathers. "I think this decision gives us terrific momentum," says Colorado Congresswoman Pat Schroeder, a sponsor. "If the Reagan Supreme Court understands this issue, let us hope that the Democratic House and Senate do as well...
...sedentary.) Messengers deliver messages, cleaners clean, lawyers bill. The pace is heady, overwhelming, if one does not include cities like Youngstown, Ohio, where the steel industry has been nailed shut for the past few years, and small farms in Kansas and South Carolina that lie as graveyards to unpaid mortgages. Everybody seems to know everything everywhere. The television news displays a riot in an overcrowded Tennessee prison, a newly discovered poem by Shakespeare, an earthquake in Mexico, a bombing in Libya, starvation in Africa, a dinosaur bone...