Focus (Forum & Focus)
Jun. 22, 2007
Family Caregivers Need Legal Protections at Work
Forum Column - By Joan C. Williams - Proposals to prohibit discrimination against employees with family responsibilities are a natural progression in workplace civil rights.
By Joan C. Williams
A recent Forum column ("Family Ties Should Not Bind Those Who Craft Employment Law", June 11, 2007, by Frances Rogers) offered a measured opinion on adding family responsibilities as a protected classification under state and federal employment antidiscrimination protections, ultimately opining that to do so would be an "unworkable quagmire."
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