Los Angeles Unified School District board approved the new contract hammered out between the district and United Teachers Los Angeles, the teacher union, yesterday.

As the state of California turns its focus to legislating more paid parental leave under newly-minted Governor Gavin Newsom, the city of L.A. is also setting its sights on an official paid parental leave policy.

Paid parental leave is having a moment.

It’s been 16 months since a 64-year-old man opened fire into a crowd at the Route 91 Harvest Festival concert grounds on the Las Vegas strip.

As more Americans lose sleep each night, brain researchers are starting to call sleep deprivation a “public health crisis.”

As the workforce in the US grows older, employers are increasingly faced with delicate situations in which they might have to discuss an employee’s cognitive decline.