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Eight days later on December 29th, Ms Petrova said she was sacked summarily over the phone after an employee at the firm’s payroll office told her that she was “sick for too long”, that she was suspended and that her P45 would be sent out to her.
Ms Petrova – who has a master’s degree in European Law – worked on the firm’s chicken fillet line at its Ballyhaunis plant.
Before the Labour Court, the group pleaded that it didn’t realise that Ms Petrova was pregnant or had suffered a miscarriage at the time of dismissal and that her medical cert confirming the miscarriage was not seen by payroll before the call was made to dismiss her on December 29th.
The company stated that after finding that Ms Petrova suffered a miscarriage, it subsequently apologised to Ms Petrova and said that she could re-apply for her job when she returned to full health.
Ms Petrova – who has since had a baby boy – sued for unfair dismissal. In its ruling the Labour Court found that the Western Brand Group Ltd was aware that Ms Petrova’s illness related to her pregnancy and miscarriage at the time of dismissal.
The Labour Court stated that this finding was based upon evidence from the female Western Brand Group employee who sacked Ms Petrova on instruction from a superior.
The court found that the person stated in evidence that the Western Brand Group was, at the point of Ms Petrova’s dismissal, aware of the reasons for her unavailability for work and this was connected to her pregnancy and miscarriage.
The Western Brand Group was appealing an earlier Workplace Relations Commission (WRC) Adjudication Officer ruling which found that Ms Petrova was unfairly dismissed and awarded her €12,000.
The Labour Court ruling has now upheld the unfair dismissal ruling and increased the level of compensation to €17,000.
It's shocking how many homeowners are injured trying to trim trees near overhead electrical wires.
• A Florida resident was hospitalized after attempting to cut palm branches while standing on a ladder. One of the branches made contact with a power line and severely shocked the man. The local fire department had responded to four similar incidents during the previous year.
• A homeowner climbed a ladder to trim a tree branch that was dropping leaves into his above-ground swimming pool and causing a nuisance. A branch came in contact with the power line, shocking the man with a jolt of electricity and sending him into cardiac arrest. He fell 20 feet to the ground, but was revived by medic...
These are not freak accidents, they are preventable.
Tree limbs can conduct electricity. When trees grow near overhead electrical wires, they can contact the wires and become energized. Trees and wires are dangerous, full of electrical power that can injure or kill humans.
There are several things that can go wrong for do-it-yourselfers trying to trim tree branches. For example, if proper tree cutting techniques are not understood, the cut branch can swing in unpredictable directions as it falls and could easily land on an energized wire.
There are three-wire (called "triplex") lines connecting the power lines on the pole to your house (meter).Service wires leading from the pole to the house can pack a punch. The type of shock you might have received (and survived) when changing a household light switch is not the same type of shock you will receive if ...
A common house switch carries 120 volts but the electric flow is usually limited to 10, 15 or 20 amps. A common "house drop" (service wire) contains 240 volts and up to 20 amps or more. Given the right set of circumstances, even the shock a person gets from a common light switch can kill, but at the same time, it is ea...
• Look for power lines before pruning trees and large shrubs. If lines are anywhere near the tree, don't attempt any tree work. Professional tree climbers have the training and equipment needed to perform these tasks safely.
• Never climb a tree in order to prune it. Even if the wires aren't currently touching the tree, remember that the trees branches will shift once you begin climbing or removing limbs.
• Wearing rubber-soled shoes or rubber gloves while tree pruning will not protect from a fatal shock.
• Never extend long-handled saws or pruners into a tree without checking for power lines. Electricity is always trying to go somewhere, and it will easily travel through metal, water, trees, and/or the ground.
• Don't move ladders or long-handled pruning tools around the yard without first looking up. Always read and heed ladder-use safety labels.
More importantly, hire an insured, tree care professional with the experience, expertise and equipment to safely take down or prune trees in wires. Require proof of liability insurance, and check to see if the cost of the work is covered by your insurance company.
Contact the Tree Care Industry Association, a public and professional resource on trees and arboriculture since 1938. An easy way to find a tree care service provider in your area is to use the "Locate Your Local TCIA Member Companies" program. You can use this service by calling 1-800-733-2622 or by doing a ZIP Code s...
About the Tree Care Industry Association (TCIA): Founded in 1938, TCIA is a public and professional resource on trees and arboriculture. It has more than 2,100 member companies who recognize stringent safety and performance standards and who are required to carry liability insurance. TCIA also has the nation's only Acc...
The Piscataway High School football team, ranked No. 12 in USA TODAY NETWORK New Jersey’s statewide Top 20, overcame a slow start to score four touchdowns in the second quarter on the way to a 41-0 victory over East Brunswick on Friday night.
The Chiefs (1-0) amassed 219 yards of total offense, but the Bears (0-1) did a solid job against the run, limiting Piscataway’s vaunted ground game to 118 yards on 25 carries.
Senior quarterback Joseph Hatcher took advantage of what the defense yielded through the air, completing 8 of 12 passes for 101 yards including a 6-yard scoring strike to Nick Recine.
Juwon Jackson returned the second-half kickoff 79 yards for a touchdown to give the Chiefs a 33-0 lead.
Piscataway closed out its scoring with a safety.
Piscataway, which failed to convert Andre Felton’s fumble recovery at the East Brunswick 30-yard line on the Bears’ first possession into points, and which lost a fumble on a punt return, also in the first quarter, proved it can overcome errors and a slow start with its explosive offense, which registered 27 second-qua...
Lord Jones, a transfer from Immaculata who led the Spartans with six interceptions last season, picked off a pass in his Piscataway debut, stepping in front of a tight end screen to set up the Chiefs’ third touchdown, a 2-yard run from Jackson with 6:39 left in the second quarter. The touchdown was Piscataway’s third i...
► The Chiefs scored two touchdowns 16 seconds apart. After Hatcher connected with Recine for the game’s first score on a third-and-goal, East Brunswick fumbled the ensuing kickoff and Piscataway recovered. Juwon Jackson broke off a 26-yard touchdown run on the next play from scrimmage.
► Hatcher spread the ball around, connecting with seven different receivers. He overcame a first-quarter interception on which he threw the ball into triple coverage in the end zone. Drew Brenner had the pick.
► The Chiefs host South Brunswick on Friday at 7 p.m.
► The Bears travel to J.P. Stevens on Friday at 7 p.m.
She became a mother for the first time on Monday after welcoming her son Charlie Kingston.
And four days later, Home And Away actress Erika Heynatz continued to gush about her little man.
The 40-year-old took to social media to describe her newborn as a 'piece of heaven' to her soap co-star Lynne McGranger.
'The new babe is a real slice of heaven. So happy x,' she replied to the 62-year-old.
On Wednesday the former Australia's Next Top Model host shared a precious black and white image of Charlie on social media as she announced the exciting news.
Along with the image, which shows the baby's feet and each of the couple's hands, the new parents gushed about their new arrival.
'Thrilled to share the great news that we welcomed our beautiful little boy Charlie Kingston on Monday afternoon,' the blonde beauty wrote.
Just hours before giving birth to her bundle of joy on Monday Erika showed off her bare baby bump as she sported a tiny bikini while enjoying a watermelon in an Instagram post.
She sat comfortably on the ground with her legs crossed and back straight while wearing her blonde locks in loose waves.
Erika and husband Andrew, who have been married for eight years, announced that they were expecting their first child together in June, with the actress telling fans they were 'bursting with excitement'.
'Due to pop out in December unless he/she has other plans,' she added, suggesting they would leave the baby's gender a surprise.
Erika, who recently made her debut on-screen as new biology teacher at Summer Bay High playing Charlotte King, has been acting throughout her pregnancy and seen taking breaks running along the beach.
She was killed off the show during Wednesday night's finale, leaving the soap's fans guessing 'who killed Charlotte'.
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This bright and charming 5 bedroom, 3.5 bath home is located on a wooded cul-de-sac lot in the sought after Village of Cochran's Crossing in The Woodlands. The well appointed floor plan offers a formal living and dining room, a spacious den, a large game room with study niche, and sizable bedrooms . The vast master bed...
Sorry, H&M, but buying more stuff won't save the world.
Persson’s argument doesn’t make sense to me. Consumers should just keep buying stuff they don’t need in order to prop up an industry that’s already notorious for its human rights abuses and dangerous working conditions for fear that it might get worse than that? Sorry, but I don’t buy that logic.
All of this sounds good, but it misses the point. Fast fashion companies like H&M are at the root of the problem that Persson is trying to fix with Band-Aid solutions. These companies have created a throwaway fashion model that, in many ways, perpetuates the dire poverty that he claims to want to avoid by maintaining c...
Garment workers are among the poorest laborers in the world. They work in dangerous, poorly constructed factories, expected to churn out a huge volume of clothes in impossibly short turnaround times at the cheapest possible price. Many are exposed to horribly toxic dyes and chemicals, and are unable to earn anything mo...
I’ve said this before and I’ll say it again: fast fashion can never be sustainable, no matter what companies say. Whether Persson likes it or not, we live on a planet with finite resources. As Ditty points out, millions of tons of clothes get dumped in landfills every year, and Africa is swamped with unwanted charity-s...
I’m suspicious of Persson’s claim that this is about the poor factory workers. More likely his capitalistic call to keep shopping has more to do with the 400 new H&M stores slated for opening in 2015.
The only solution is a combination of buying better, buying less, and making it last. Vote with your dollars by supporting the few garment companies that actually care about their workers and have not lost sight of their humanity in the midst of making profits.
Democrats love to talk about cutting the influence of money in politics, but are they actually any more eager to fix it than Republicans?
The vast majority of Americans—more than 90 percent in recent polls—believe it “important” to “reduce the influence of money in politics.” But is the business model of the reformers actually consistent with winning reform?
This is the fair but hard question raised by the strategy planned by Senate Democrats this summer to force a vote on New Mexico Senator Tom Udall’s proposed constitutional amendment to give Congress the power “to regulate the raising and spending of money” in elections. Forty-three Senate Democrats have cosponsored the...
I suspect Democrats like it this way. These amendments are catnip to the Democratic base, the equivalent of Obamacare for Republicans. The Senate debate this August will not change a single Republican vote. But it is certain to raise a ton of campaign cash for Democrats—just in time for the 2014 elections.
For Congress to actually propose an amendment to the Constitution requires 67 votes in the Senate (and 290 votes in the now Republican-controlled House). On the current count, that means at least a dozen Republicans would need to cross the aisle to join Udall (assuming what certainly isn’t given—that he could get a una...
Instead, if there is going to be fundamental reform, that reform must be cross-partisan. And in the upset election that removed Eric Cantor, the seeds to that cross-partisan reform are clear.
Restricting the money spent in elections won’t change this. (Wherever the limit is set, the cash still needs to be raised.) Neither will declaring that “corporations are not persons” change this. (The tiny fraction of the 1 percent that funds campaigns includes no corporations.) The only way to change this is to change...
Maryland Democratic Representative John Sarbanes’s Government by the People Act, for example, introduced in February, would provide matching funds for small-dollar-funded campaigns—enough to make it possible for a candidate to win without becoming dependent upon this tiny fraction of the 1 percent. And more than two ye...
These two strategies are actually the same. They both reduce the enormous leverage that large contributors have. And they both would thus remove the ongoing temptation within both parties to compromise their basic commitments to make their (few) funders happy. Robert Kaiser’s great book, So Damn Much Money, tells the s...
But could either pursue a cross-partisan a strategy?
It’s no secret that I believe that there is such a strategy. It begins outside of Washington; it stays firmly committed to putting partisan differences to one side; it remains fiercely focused on the first step to making every other change possible—electing a Congress committed to fundamental reform in the way campaign...
Yet it’s not clear that any within the political mainstream could give up a fundamental commitment to partisanship enough to embrace such a change. It’s not even clear that any of them can even utter “this is so good,” without adding “because they are so bad.” So if this movement needs to be cross-partisan, it cannot b...
Snow Angels is an indie for people who love indies, meandering and wordy and, yes, sometimes slow. But its sadness and despair is suffused with great hope and humanity, making it far more than just two hours spent wallowing in other peoples’ sadness. It’s the same aesthetic that has made Green a modest success thus far...
David Gordon Green may be on the verge of blowing up as a mainstream filmmaker. The indie stalwart behind All the Real Girls and George Washington directed The Pineapple Express, an upcoming comedy starring and written by Seth Rogen, who seems to spin comedy gold these days. But even if Green is about to become a house...
Based on a novel by Stewart O’Nan, Snow Angels is a wintry collection of several interconnected stories, all taking place in the same small New England town. Arthur (Michael Angarano) is a typically gawky teen, busing tables at a local Chinese restaurant and flirting with co-worker Annie (Kate Beckinsale), who was his ...
Arthur is also witnessing a relationship fall apart in his own home, as his father (Griffin Dunne) moves out and Arthur’s mother Louise (Jeannetta Arnette) works to start her life over again. Meanwhile Arthur has started a flirtation with the local too-cool-for-school girl Lila (Olivia Thirlby), a romance that seems en...
Attempting to muddle through the new situations in which they’ve found themselves, each character makes some poor and selfish decisions. Arthur’s father is stranded, lonely, in an antiseptic condo, while Arthur himself no longer knows how to speak with his own dad. Annie embarks on an affair with coworker Barb’s (Amy S...
All of these stories carry along on their own until one explosive, heartwrenching incident punches each character in the gut. It’s not the kind of crazy coincidence that makes an audience groan, but rather the kind of tragedy that unites every small town. Though Arthur and Annie and Louise and Lila are all coping with ...
That’s a vague description, of course, but most of Snow Angels takes place in smaller moments rather than plot. The characters unfold and come alive slowly on the screen, with Green presenting them simply rather than asking you to judge or take part in their stories. The film veers occasionally into suspense or mystery...
The character of Glenn is what sets much of the story in action, but he also feels the most out of place. As a man losing touch with his sanity he’s sympathetic, but sometimes skews a bit closer to film villainy that everyday melancholy. Rockwell commits himself to the performance but never quite succeeds in making Gle...
Snow Angels is an indie for people who love indies, meandering and wordy and, yes, sometimes slow. But its sadness and despair is suffused with great hope and humanity, making it far more than just two hours spent wallowing in other peoples’ sadness. It’s the same aesthetic that has made Green a modest success thus far...
The Milwaukee Brewers are already sending three players to the All-Star Game, but they’re making a big push for a fourth.
Slugger Jesus Aguilar still has a chance at joining Lorenzo Cain, Christian Yelich and Josh Hader on the National League squad.
The final spot on will be determined via a fan vote. Aguilar is one of five eligible players, joining San Francisco’s Brandon Belt, St. Louis’ Matt Carpenter, Los Angeles’ Matt Muncy and Washington’s Trea Turner.
Brewers fans shouldn’t need much convincing.
Aguilar has been among the Brewers’ top performers in their wildly successful first half. He’s currently hitting .306/.368/.633 with a 1.001 OPS and 22 home runs. He leads the team in all of those categories, and is on pace to become just the fourth Brewers hitter to finish the first half with an average of .300 or bet...
Oglivie finished at .304 with 41 home runs on the season, Fielder hit .299 with 46 home runs and Braun hit .319 with 41 home runs.
Aguilar will get another chance to up those numbers when the Brewers open a three-game series with the Miami Marlins on Monday night.
If a recent trend holds, he may have caught them on an off day.
The Marlins’ pitching staff has been on a rollercoaster ride over their last six games. The Marlins have struggled every other day, compiling a combined 11.53 ERA in losses on July 3, July 5 and July 7. However, they allowed just four runs total on July 4, July 6 and July 8.
Miami helped Milwaukee assemble one of the league’s most productive outfielders in the majors, dealing Christian Yelich to the Brewers in January.
Brewers outfielders have scored a combined 162 runs this season, second in the National League. The Marlins, meanwhile, rank last and have gotten just 124 runs from their outfield.
— Milwaukee has won five in a row against Miami, their fourth winning streak against the Marlins of at least five games since their first meeting in 1998. The Brewers won their first 12 meetings with the Marlins.
— The top of the order has done plenty of damage for the Brewers this season. Milwaukee’s No. 1 and No. 2 hitters have a combined .353 on-base percentage, second in the NL.
— Brewers starting pitcher Chase Anderson has impressed on the road. Opposing hitters are batting just .180 against Anderson on the road this season, the second-lowest such average in the majors this season.
Easy pumpkin crafts and recipes, from homemade spiced syrup to planters for the garden.
Come November 1, jack-o-lanterns tend to get cast aside and forgotten. But pumpkins, carved or not, can serve as décor and more all season long. Give them a second life with some of these crafty (and tasty) ideas from Lewis Drug.
Republicans say they have learned important lessons from previous elections where women helped put Obama and other Democrats in office. This year, the GOP is promising an aggressive counterattack.
The Republican National Committee plans to a new initiative, "14 in '14," to recruit and train women under age 40 to help spread the party's message in the final 14 weeks of the campaign.
Representatives from all the party committees — the RNC and those supporting GOP candidates for Senate, House, governors and state legislators — meet regularly to plan strategy and advise candidates.
They are encouraging candidates to include their wives and daughters in campaign ads, have women at their events and build a Facebook-like internal database of women willing to campaign on their behalf.
Responding to Obama's equal pay event, Republicans cried hypocrisy and pointed out that women on average make less than men on the White House staff. When the Senate voted on an equal pay measure the next day, every Republican voted no and said the law already protects women from being paid less than men.

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