HONG KONG (Reuters) - Chinese provinces are urging companies to offer women flexible job roles called "Mama's Posts" that make it easier to balance work and childcare, the official Xinhua news agency said on Monday.
Authorities are trying to encourage more women to have children after China's population fell for a second consecutive year in 2023 and births touched a record low.
"Mama's Post is a position specially created for mothers ...... (continue reading...)
By Waylon Cunningham
(Reuters) - An upcoming shareholder vote at Denny’s Corp could pressure the company to set targets for reducing its use of pork from suppliers that keep pregnant pigs in tight confinement, called gestation crates.
The Humane Society of the United States, a shareholder in Denny’s, filed the proposal ahead of the diner chain’s May 15 annual investor meeting.
The proposal has been backed by... (continue reading...)
By Sarah Marsh and Holger Hansen
BERLIN (Reuters) - Four teenagers are being investigated over an attack on a German Member of the European Parliament that left him needing surgery, police said on Monday, as Berlin debated how to tackle a rise in assaults on politicians.
Matthias Ecke, 41, was kicked and beaten as he put up posters for the Social Democrats (SPD) - the party of German Chancellor Olaf Scholz - on Friday evening in Dresden,... (continue reading...)
By Julien Pretot
PARIS (Reuters) - Paris 2024 is getting ready to face an unprecedented challenge in terms of cybersecurity, with organisers expecting a huge pressure on the Games this summer.
Organised crime, activists and states will be the main threats during the July 26-Aug. 11 Olympics and the Aug. 28-Sept. 8 Paralympics.
Paris 2024, who have been working hand in hand with the French national agency for information... (continue reading...)
By Nate Raymond
BOSTON (Reuters) - The top Massachusetts court on Monday is set to consider whether the state's voters will get to decide two ballot proposals in November that would redefine the relationship between app-based companies like Uber Technologies and Lyft and their drivers - one backed by industry and the other by labor.
The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court first will hear arguments in a labor-backed challenge to a ballot... (continue reading...)
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