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Littler: Former EEOC general counsel ‘intimidating’ employers over abortion travel benefits

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A letter addressed to the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission Oct. 21 claims that the EEOC’s former general counsel, Sharon Fast Gustafson, sent messages to multiple employers encouraging them not to adopt travel benefits for employees seeking an abortion and cautioning them that doing so violates federal anti-discrimination laws.

Management-side employment law firm Littler Mendelson’s Workplace Policy Institute sent the letter to EEOC, according to a copy published by Bloomberg Law. The letter, which is signed by Michael Lotito, shareholder at

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The argument: Should Massachusetts require employers to provide paid vacation time?

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Massachusetts should meet the basic global labor market standards established more than half a century ago by requiring employers to provide paid vacation days.

The International Labour Organization — the United Nations agency that helps set and monitor baseline international agreements to foster economic stability between workers and employers and to promote parity across borders — has had a broad-based minimum paid vacation compact since 1970.

That standard, which has never been adopted by the United States, requires all workers (except seafarers) be guaranteed paid vacation days each year equivalent to three working weeks, as well

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