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Business leaders urge ministers to do more to help companies create a "pro-employment landscape" as a change to employment law comes into force.

Italy's largest trade union, the CGIL, says it will hold a general strike over government plans to reform employment laws.

Dr. Mary Beamer, 41, said she was fired because she missed 11 days of work after complications from her pregnancy. After she sued for sex and pregnancy discrimination, her employer counter-sued for $50,000, saying she broke a four-year employment contract. Worker advocates say Beamer's case represents inconsistency in enforcing pregnancy discrimination laws, which the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has said is a "long overdue" issue.

Careful what you wear in Florida! There and in other so-called “at will” employment states,you can be fired for any legal reason, as 14 employees of the Elizabeth R. Wellborn law firm in Deerfield Beach found out when they wore orange shirts to work on...