Workplace Stress

Workplace Stress

Work–life balance (United States) – Laws and policies

Family and Medical Leave Act The 1990s saw the introduction of additional laws designed to help the American worker. One current law that guarantees employees time off is the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993. According to the Family and Medical Leave Act, any “eligible” employee is entitled to twelve weeks of leave for [...]

Workplace Stress

Dodd–Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act – Provisions

Title I – Financial Stability Title I outlines two new agencies tasked with monitoring systemic risk and researching the state of the economy and clarifies the comprehensive supervision of bank holding companies by the Federal Reserve. Title I creates the Financial Stability Oversight Council and the Office of Financial Research. The two new offices are [...]

Workplace Stress

Refusal of work – Work–life balance

Work–life balance is having enough time for work and enough to have a life thus the work life balance. Related, though broader, terms include “lifestyle balance” and “life balance”. The expression was first used in the late 1970s to describe the balance between an individual’s work and personal life. In the United States, this phrase [...]

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Work–life balance – Global comparisons

According to a new study by Harvard and McGill University researchers, the United States lags far behind nearly all wealthy countries when it comes to family-oriented workplace policies such as maternity leave, paid sick days and support for breast feeding. Jody Heyman, founder of the Harvard-based Project on Global Working Families and director of McGill’s [...]

Workplace Stress

Work–life balance (United States) – Laws and policies

Family and Medical Leave Act The 1990s saw the introduction of additional laws designed to help the American worker. One current law that guarantees employees time off is the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993. According to the Family and Medical Leave Act, any “eligible” employee is entitled to twelve weeks of leave for [...]

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T–V distinction – Language-specific remarks

Afrikaans Modern Afrikaans rarely makes the distinction between the informal “jy” and “jou” (“you” subject and “your” / “you” object) and the more formal “u” (or “U” when addressing God), although sometimes it is upheld in a formal setting, such as in politics, business or in a polite conversation. The trend is moving towards using [...]

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Lluís Maria Xirinacs – Biography

He was born in Barcelona in 1932, and he became a priest when he was 22. In the 1960s and 1970s, he conducted several hunger strikes, the first a long one against the relationship between Church and State during Francisco Franco’s regime. The Spanish regime imprisoned him twice (1972 and 1974–1975). He declared himself a [...]

Workplace Stress

Dodd–Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act – Provisions

Title I – Financial Stability Title I outlines two new agencies tasked with monitoring systemic risk and researching the state of the economy and clarifies the comprehensive supervision of bank holding companies by the Federal Reserve. Title I creates the Financial Stability Oversight Council and the Office of Financial Research. The two new offices are [...]

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Alexander Dubček – Biography

Early life Dubček was born in Uhrovec, Czechoslovakia (Slovakia), and raised in the Kyrgyz SSR of the Soviet Union (now Kyrgyzstan) as a member of the Esperantist industrial cooperative Interhelpo. His father, Štefan, moved from Chicago to Czechoslovakia after World War I, when he refused to serve in the military for his pacifism. Alexander Dubček [...]

Workplace Stress

Refusal of work – Work–life balance

Work–life balance is having enough time for work and enough to have a life thus the work life balance. Related, though broader, terms include “lifestyle balance” and “life balance”. The expression was first used in the late 1970s to describe the balance between an individual’s work and personal life. In the United States, this phrase [...]

Workplace Stress

Alexander Dubček – Biography

Early life Dubček was born in Uhrovec, Czechoslovakia (Slovakia), and raised in the Kyrgyz SSR of the Soviet Union (now Kyrgyzstan) as a member of the Esperantist industrial cooperative Interhelpo. His father, Štefan, moved from Chicago to Czechoslovakia after World War I, when he refused to serve in the military for his pacifism. Alexander Dubček [...]

Workplace Stress

Work–life balance (United States) – Laws and policies

Family and Medical Leave Act The 1990s saw the introduction of additional laws designed to help the American worker. One current law that guarantees employees time off is the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993. According to the Family and Medical Leave Act, any “eligible” employee is entitled to twelve weeks of leave for [...]