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Showing posts with label gender discrimination. Show all posts
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Friday, April 8, 2011

Barriers to Family Medical Leave for Men

In the March issue of the ABA Journal, Becky Beaupre Gillespie and Hollee Schwartz Temple (presumably themselves liberated, in light of those very long names) wrote about Ariel Ayanna, and the new frontier in sex/gender employment discrimination cases.  Ayanna was an associate in a Boston law firm, and has filed suit alleging termination in retaliation for his having exercised his right under the Family Medical Leave Act (FMLA) to take leave to take care of his new born baby and ill wife.