WASHINGTON, D.C. †With this year’s flu epidemic in full swing, nearly half of all U.S. workers who fall ill or have sick kids must decide whether to stay home and lose wages or go to work sick and expose others, a choice many say no one should have to make.
Residents of San Francisco's Tenderloin got a high-tech boost today when the St. Anthony Foundation brought in a crew of volunteers to minister to a long procession of sick, battered and out-of-work computers. The line outside the center on Golden Gate Avenue
1/83/8 WASHINGTON | With this year's flu epidemic in full swing, nearly half of all U.S. workers who fall ill or have sick kids must decide whether to stay home and lose wages or go to work sick and expose others, a choice many say no one should have to make. Advocates for making paid sick days a basic labor standard say the United States should follow all other developed countries and
Slaughterhouse workers at a California meat-packing plant were forced by their boss to butcher sick cows, it was reported Saturday. If the workers refused a supervisor's order, they would get fired, an ex-employee said in an intervi
Trouble flared at the Emirates Stadium yesterday after a section of Aston Villa supporters sang sick songs mocking the horrific injury sustained by striker Eduardo last week.
Colombian President Alvaro Uribe demanded on Friday that FARC guerrillas free sick hostages, including French-Colombian captive Ingrid Betancourt who said "death seems like a sweet option."
It's a particularly heartless crime -- a prized big-screen television given by the Make-A-Wish Foundation was stolen from a sick Folsom 8-year-old's bedroom.
A former security guard with New York's Tishman Speyer real-estate firm claims in a lawsuit that he was fired for missing work due to chest pains.Gerald Murtha claims in his $3 million lawsuit that his former employer of 15 years phoned him after he returned from a doctor's visit in April 2007 to inform that he was being fired for taking an 11th sick day (when) the union contract only permits