Walmart Fires Pregnant Worker for Being Sick
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on August 7th, 2014 11:08 pm by HL
Walmart Fires Pregnant Worker for Being Sick
Laura Clawson, Daily Kos: Just a few short months ago, Walmart introduced a new policy that was supposed to give pregnant workers added protections under a disability policy. But it hasn’t taken long to find out that concerns about the new policy’s vague language and possible loopholes were absolutely merited. Candis Riggins, a Walmart worker who lost her job after her managers refused to reassign her to work she could do while pregnant, found that out the hard way. Riggins told Bryce Covert she asked her managers to be allowed to work as a cashier during her pregnancy, since her regular maintenance job involved exposure to harsh cleaning chemicals and lifting and carrying cleaning supplies.
Only 31 Possible Voter Frauds in 1 Billion Votes
After an extensive investigation we have a new number on just how extensive America’s voter fraud problem really is. Hold on to your hats, folks, because that number is: 31. That’s not 31 proven incidents in the last 14 years, that’s 31 possible incidents — some or most of them could be the result of clerical errors, like people signing the poll books on the wrong lines. That’s what the conservative obsession with voter ID laws seeks to tamp down on.
