{"id":227851,"date":"2010-01-25T13:47:42","date_gmt":"2010-01-25T18:47:42","guid":{"rendered":"tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c60fd53ef0128770f08b4970c"},"modified":"2010-01-25T13:47:42","modified_gmt":"2010-01-25T18:47:42","slug":"win-in-parent-discrimination-cases-raises-issues-for-employers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/227851","title":{"rendered":"Win in parent discrimination cases raises issues for employers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My story on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/business\/ct-biz-0124-parent-discimination--20100122,0,2115553.story\" >Sunday&#8217;s front page<\/a> about Dena Lockwood, a single mom who got fired for taking a day off to take care of her sick 4-year-old, has struck a chord. <\/p>\n<p>It has generated a lot of comments on chicagotribune.com. Some of the commenters said I didn&#8217;t present the company&#8217;s side of the story. As my story says, I called the company&#8217;s attorney who declined to comment and then I left messages at the company&#8217;s office for the owners of the business.<\/p>\n<p>The company, Professional Neurological Services,\u00a0also failed to present evidence at the Chicago Commission on Human Relations, where the case was brought. Here&#8217;s a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scribd.com\/doc\/25786832\/Lockwood-Decision\" >copy of the commission&#8217;s ruling<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My story on Sunday&#8217;s front page about Dena Lockwood, a single mom who got fired for taking a day off to take care of her sick 4-year-old, has struck a chord. It has generated a lot of comments on chicagotribune.com. Some of the commenters said I didn&#8217;t present the company&#8217;s side of the story. As [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3992,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-227851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227851","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3992"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=227851"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227851\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}