A hearing was convened April 22, 1986 to consider H.R. 4300, the Parental and Medical Leave Act of 1986, a bill providing job security to employees who need to take unpaid leave for certain serious family or medical reasons. The bill exempts companies with less than 15 employees. Testimony establishes the need for extended parental and medical…

Proposes several strategies to resolve pension discrimination issues by examining relevant federal laws and their implications for higher education. (Editor/PG)

Coca Cola's Agricultural Labor Project was designed to change the migrant's way of life from very unstable to stable by making migrant housing more habitable, creating permanent jobs, and providing numerous other fringe benefits. (BP)

Statistical surveys reveal what administrators are being paid in public schools and in higher education. (Author/MLF)

The Federal minimum wage law now covers household workers. (Author)

Three related studies sought to determine the overall job satisfaction of secondary school principals and the extent to which such satisfaction is affected by the collective bargaining process. One study was designed to illuminate the current role of principals in teacher-district collective bargaining in Pennsylvania and the relationship between…

A survey was undertaken by the Office of Institutional Research and the Department of Education Administration at West Virginia University to determine the range, alternatives, norms, and other major administration considerations relative to fringe benefits available to nonteaching employees in major American universities. A copy of the…

This report contains information on 1,074 school systems that supplied usable data to the Educational Research Service, Inc. national survey of fringe benefits. The system-by-system listing includes data from 541 districts, the remaining 533 preferred to remain anonymous. The first section of the system-by-system listing is concerned mainly with…

Explores some of the reasons why women should seriously consider accounting as a major course of study in college. (Author/RK)

A general survey of the state of the law at all points where maternity produces a claim of sex discrimination in employment and discussion of whether, under Geduldig v. Aiello, all private fringe benefit systems must equate normal pregnancy with temporary sickness and disability. (JT)

Susan Young, wife of the chancellor of the University of California at Los Angeles, is seen as the quintessential college president's spouse, choosing to devote herself to her husband's job. She believes the female spouses of college presidents deserve more recognition and was instrumental in pressing for spouses' benefits. (MLW)

Providing child care for employees will become increasingly important. In nationwide survey of four-year institutions, nearly three-quarters of the 73 institutions that responded said they contributed in some way to child care for their students and employees. (MLW)

Replies to James G. Ward's objections to the author's recent "Journal of Education Finance" article, which concluded that comprehensive collective bargaining had no significant effect on teachers' salaries or fringe benefits in Wisconsin school districts during 1979-80. Calls for alternative strategies to improve teachers' economic…

Congress' proposed revision of the Internal Revenue Code could have a significant impact on the retirement options available to educators. Some retirement and tax shelter plans are reviewed including: Individual Retirement Accounts, Keogh plans, Section 403(b) of the Code, and retirement and estate planning. (MLW)

A survey of house staff stipends, benefits, and funding for members of the Council of Teaching Hospitals is reported. The survey presents data on trends in stipend levels, total hospital expenditures for stipends and benefits, and the sources used to fund these expenditures. (MLW)