Teacher with breast cancer must pay for sub A teacher in San Francisco who is on medical leave because she has breast cancer has been informed the cost of a substitute teacher will be deducted from her salary, in accordance with state law. Teachers can draw from a sick leave bank for a maximum of 85 days without a loss of salary. CNN (5/9)
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Wages are growing, but not like in the past US wage growth is outpacing inflation but lags that seen in previous expansion cycles. Lower-paying jobs are seeing the biggest wage gains, with average bartender wages up 9.6% over the past year. Axios (5/4)
Religious accommodations in workplaces can be a thorny legal issue, but managers should be concerned primarily with making reasonable accommodations and following any written processes, says Harvard Business School professor Derek van Bever. "When somebody feels not only not accommodated but insulted by your approach to their religious convictions, that's a real recipe for escalation," he says. Harvard Business School Working Knowledge (5/7)
During a traffic stop when a Florida sheriff's deputy pulled over a man and a woman for ignoring a stop sign, the officer found that the pair had illegally collected 41 turtles, which were found in a backpack. When the deputy asked the woman whether she had anything else on her person, she took a 1-foot-long baby alligator out of her yoga pants. Miami Herald (tiered subscription model) (5/7)
