women s rights advocates are gathered in support of peggy young, the u.p.s. driver who sued for pregnancy discrimination. what we ll be looking at is how do the justices see this case? is this the chance for them to break their streak of restricting women s rights that rule in favor of plaintiffs that seek to limit it, or is this an opportunity, they see this impinges on the rights of ememployer ememployers, something the court is very sympathetic to. it is illegal to fire someone because they re a woman, but what exactly is she saying should have happened? well when you say the major functions of the job, what peggy young argues in fact this was only a very small portion of her work responsibilities as a u.p.s. driver that she couldn t perform without assistance. she couldn t lift packages that were more than 20 pounds. in other cases, maybe women need
names of major operatives working on behalf of the u.s. government around the world. he said that s one of the reasons he went to apply to booz allen, the outfit that was responsible for getting rs hired of these national in the u.s. government. so, in fact, we could have individuals whose lives are endangered now because of the information that s on these laptops. and, again, the most shocking thing to all of me about this is that a booz allen employee had this type of access within, what, three months of joining the nsa? that is not a startling or six months or whatever it was? this will be something that has already started to be looked at. the question is not about how many people have security clearances or whether or not people should have access, but why in his position did he have access to information that fell outside of his work responsibilities. general alexander, the director of the nsa has testified that this was
working on behalf of the u.s. government around the world. he said that s one of the reasons he went to apply to booz allen, the outfit that was responsible for getting so many of these national security contractors hired in the u.s. government. so, in fact, we could have individuals whose lives are endangered now because of the information that s on these laptops. and, again, the most shocking thing to all of me about this is that a booz allen employee had this type of access within, what, three months of joining the nsa? that is not a startling or six months or whatever it was? this will be something that has already started to be looked at. the question is not about how many people have security clearances or whether or not people should have access, but why in his position did he have access to information that fell outside of his work responsibilities. general alexander, the director of the nsa has testified that this was part of an nsa library that
working on behalf of the u.s. government around the world. he said that s one of the reasons he went to apply to booz allen, the outfit that was responsible for getting so many of these national security contractors hired in the u.s. government. so, in fact, we could have individuals whose lives are endangered now because of the information that s on these laptops. and, again, the most shocking thing to all of me about this is that a booz allen employee had this type of access within, what, three months of joining the nsa? that is not a startling or six months or whatever it was? this will be something that has already started to be looked at. the question is not about how many people have security clearances or whether or not people should have access, but why in his position did he have access to information that fell outside of his work responsibilities. general alexander, the director of the nsa has testified that this was part of an nsa library that
inevitable during the winner month, but for thousands of americans, getting sick presents a major financial problem. the prospect of staying home to get better without pay is a major hardship. sarah jane glen joins me now. good morning. good morning. you wrote a piece in the atlantic that it s been 20 years since the family and medical leave act was signed by president clinton and you argue new steps need to be take on the match kind of a work-life world we live in now. make your argument. well, the family and medical leave act was a really important piece of legislation, because it was the first federal law that was explicitly aimed at helping families manage their work responsibilities with their responsibles to their partners and their children. but unfortunately we haven t taken any steps since then, so the fmla will let a worker take unpaid time off where their job is protect sod they can t be fired, but it doesn t offer any wage replacement. if someone has sick, when they