Workplace Buzz: Today's Headlines

Workplace Buzz on October 1, 2007 7:14 AM

Lawsuit Filed Against News Service
Bloomberg L.P., the news and financial services company, was accused by the federal government Thursday of discriminating against women who became pregnant and took maternity leave. The company, which has 9,000 employees in 125 offices worldwide, said the allegations were meritless and said it would fight them. Houston Chronicle

Extended Leaves
Early one evening in March, Amal Shehata was giving her infant son a bath and noticed he was getting too big for his baby tub. Overwhelmed with emotion that she was missing her son grow up while she worked, Amal decided to quit a job she loved as a director for internal strategic projects at PricewaterhouseCoopers, where she'd worked for 11 years. She wanted to be a full-time mom. After discussing the idea with her husband, Amal walked into her boss's office to resign. Her boss, however, had another idea. Since he didn't want to lose a valuable employee, he asked Amal to consider a six-month leave of absence instead. "My boss told me, 'You don't have to take this traditional approach and just leave,' " she says. Working Mother

Tourism and Women’s Rights
More needs to be done to guarantee equal rights for women in the travel industry as well as tougher laws against their exploitation in sex tourism, said the Vatican secretary of state. Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone called for more attention in safeguarding women's dignity and promoting their rights in a letter marking World Tourism Day, celebrated worldwide Sept. 27. Catholic News Service

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