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Company Memo Says "Child's Sickness Not An Excuse To Miss Work", Sparks Outrage
According to the memo, the company allegedly states that employees will not be permitted to take leave to care for a sick child.
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Childcare Leave For Women Is A Constitutional Mandate, Says Supreme Court
Observing the issue as "serious", the Supreme Court on Monday held that denying child-care leaves to a mother who is taking care of a child with disabilities, would violate the constitutional duty of the State to ensure equal participation of women.
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Can't Deny Child-Care Leaves To Mother Of Disabled Child: Supreme Court
Observing the issue as "serious", the Supreme Court held that denying child-care leaves to a mother who is taking care of a child with disabilities, would violate the constitutional duty of the State to ensure equal participation of women.
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Women Soldiers, Officers To Get Same Maternity, Child Care Leave: Defence Minister
Defence Minister Rajnath Singh has approved a proposal to grant maternity, child care and child adoption leave to women soldiers, sailors and air warriors on par with their officer counterparts.
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Women, Single Male Government Employees To Get 730 Days Child Care Leave: Centre
Female and single male government employees are eligible for 730 days of child care leave, Union Minister of State for Personnel Jitendra Singh said today.
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Single Fathers Employed In Haryana Government Entitled To Childcare Leave
Single fathers in Haryana government can now take up to two years off over their entire service period to take care of their children, a privilege earlier given only to women employees.
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Karnataka Government Gifts On Women's Day: Six-Months Child Care Leave
On international women's day, Karnataka Chief Minister B S Yediyurappa on Monday announced a proposal to provide six-months child care leave to women employees of the Government.
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Single Male Parents To Get 2-Year Child Care Leave In Railways From April
The Railways will implement the government's policy of providing leave to single male parents from April this year in order to promote gender justice and equality.
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Each Morning, Bus Driver Braids Hair For Girl Whose Mother Died
Isabella Pieri has become very good at taking care of herself. The 11-year-old gets ready for school on her own ever since her mother died two years ago from a rare disease. Her father, who leaves for work early in the morning, has stepped up to the challenge of parenting on his own. But there are a few aspects of having a daughter that remain baff...
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Jain Couple From Madhya Pradesh's Neemuch To Leave 3-Year-Old Daughter To Turn Monks
A Jain couple from a small town in Madhya Pradesh has decided to abandon their 3-year-old daughter and property said to be worth 100 crores to become monks under the 'Shwetambar' (white clad) order of their religion, according to their families.
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Jain Couple To Leave 3-Year-Old Child, '100-Crore Property' For Monkhood
A well-educated Jain couple from Madhya Pradesh has decided to leave behind their three-year-old daughter and property "worth Rs 100 crore" to embrace monkhood under the 'Shwetambar' (white clad) order of their religion, according to their families.
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Mother At 57, She Wanted Child Care Leave. Sacked Days Before Retirement
For Saphla Devi, her 60th birthday on April 30 is full of mixed emotions. A manager for Railways subsidiary RITES for the last 31 years, Saphla is now also a mother, something that she's wanted to be all her life and only achieved three years ago after 15 bouts of In-vitro Fertilisation treatments.
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No Night Shifts For Women, They Are Needed At Home, Say Karnataka Legislators
Women should not be forced to work in night shifts and companies should, as far as possible, avoid women on the night shift, a committee of legislators has proposed in Karnataka. The proposal has triggered a barrage of protests from activists and civil society, who have called it regressive and argued that if accepted, it will shrink the space for ...
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Donald Trump Wades Into Democratic Waters With Child Care Plan
Donald Trump rolled out a plan on Tuesday aimed at making child care more affordable, guaranteeing new mothers six weeks of paid maternity leave and suggesting new incentives for employees to provide their workers childcare. Spurred on by his daughter, Ivanka, Trump waded into topics more often discussed by Democrats.
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Donald Trump Teases Plan To Tackle Costs Of Child Care
When Ivanka Trump introduced her father at last month's Republican convention, she described a tough-talking deal-maker who also worries about family leave, equal pay for women and the cost of child care.
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Company Memo Says "Child's Sickness Not An Excuse To Miss Work", Sparks Outrage
According to the memo, the company allegedly states that employees will not be permitted to take leave to care for a sick child.
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Childcare Leave For Women Is A Constitutional Mandate, Says Supreme Court
Observing the issue as "serious", the Supreme Court on Monday held that denying child-care leaves to a mother who is taking care of a child with disabilities, would violate the constitutional duty of the State to ensure equal participation of women.
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Can't Deny Child-Care Leaves To Mother Of Disabled Child: Supreme Court
Observing the issue as "serious", the Supreme Court held that denying child-care leaves to a mother who is taking care of a child with disabilities, would violate the constitutional duty of the State to ensure equal participation of women.
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Women Soldiers, Officers To Get Same Maternity, Child Care Leave: Defence Minister
Defence Minister Rajnath Singh has approved a proposal to grant maternity, child care and child adoption leave to women soldiers, sailors and air warriors on par with their officer counterparts.
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Women, Single Male Government Employees To Get 730 Days Child Care Leave: Centre
Female and single male government employees are eligible for 730 days of child care leave, Union Minister of State for Personnel Jitendra Singh said today.
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Single Fathers Employed In Haryana Government Entitled To Childcare Leave
Single fathers in Haryana government can now take up to two years off over their entire service period to take care of their children, a privilege earlier given only to women employees.
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Karnataka Government Gifts On Women's Day: Six-Months Child Care Leave
On international women's day, Karnataka Chief Minister B S Yediyurappa on Monday announced a proposal to provide six-months child care leave to women employees of the Government.
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Single Male Parents To Get 2-Year Child Care Leave In Railways From April
The Railways will implement the government's policy of providing leave to single male parents from April this year in order to promote gender justice and equality.
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Each Morning, Bus Driver Braids Hair For Girl Whose Mother Died
Isabella Pieri has become very good at taking care of herself. The 11-year-old gets ready for school on her own ever since her mother died two years ago from a rare disease. Her father, who leaves for work early in the morning, has stepped up to the challenge of parenting on his own. But there are a few aspects of having a daughter that remain baff...
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Jain Couple From Madhya Pradesh's Neemuch To Leave 3-Year-Old Daughter To Turn Monks
A Jain couple from a small town in Madhya Pradesh has decided to abandon their 3-year-old daughter and property said to be worth 100 crores to become monks under the 'Shwetambar' (white clad) order of their religion, according to their families.
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Jain Couple To Leave 3-Year-Old Child, '100-Crore Property' For Monkhood
A well-educated Jain couple from Madhya Pradesh has decided to leave behind their three-year-old daughter and property "worth Rs 100 crore" to embrace monkhood under the 'Shwetambar' (white clad) order of their religion, according to their families.
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Mother At 57, She Wanted Child Care Leave. Sacked Days Before Retirement
For Saphla Devi, her 60th birthday on April 30 is full of mixed emotions. A manager for Railways subsidiary RITES for the last 31 years, Saphla is now also a mother, something that she's wanted to be all her life and only achieved three years ago after 15 bouts of In-vitro Fertilisation treatments.
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No Night Shifts For Women, They Are Needed At Home, Say Karnataka Legislators
Women should not be forced to work in night shifts and companies should, as far as possible, avoid women on the night shift, a committee of legislators has proposed in Karnataka. The proposal has triggered a barrage of protests from activists and civil society, who have called it regressive and argued that if accepted, it will shrink the space for ...
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Donald Trump Wades Into Democratic Waters With Child Care Plan
Donald Trump rolled out a plan on Tuesday aimed at making child care more affordable, guaranteeing new mothers six weeks of paid maternity leave and suggesting new incentives for employees to provide their workers childcare. Spurred on by his daughter, Ivanka, Trump waded into topics more often discussed by Democrats.
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Donald Trump Teases Plan To Tackle Costs Of Child Care
When Ivanka Trump introduced her father at last month's Republican convention, she described a tough-talking deal-maker who also worries about family leave, equal pay for women and the cost of child care.
