It was an amazing day here at the Holland Street Center with over 150
people attending today’s Health & Wellness Fair. There were chair
massages, flu shots, legal and financial health, fitness and nutrition,
dental health, screenings and more! This is all part of the SCOA’s
health and wellness programming. Check out the fitness classes
happening every day.
Senator Patricia Jehlen
Second Middlesex District
State House of Massachusetts
Room 513
Boston, MA 02133
BOSTON – Senator Jehlen announced today that the Senate voted to pass S865 An Act relative to parental leave. Senator Jehlen is the lead sponsor of this legislation, which protects employees and modernizes the legal concepts of parental leave.
“I am proud of the hard work of all of those involved in getting this legislation passed, which provides important protections for parents of both genders so that they may focus on establishing a life for their new child,” said Senator Jehlen. “The legislation protects both employees and employers through gender neutrality and transparency in job protection.”
An act relative to parental leave updates Massachusetts’ parental leave laws to reflect the evolution and current needs of modern families. The bill makes the parental leave law gender neutral, allowing for the parental leave statute to be available for both men and women. Employers who do not provide comparable leave to fathers may be violating constitutional rights to equal protection under the law. The legislation not only protects parents, but also protects employers because it remedies the current, unconstitutional nature of the law that risks violating the principle of equal protection.
Additionally, An act relative to parental leave requires employers to inform employees in writing prior to their parental leave, or at the time of making a request, if taking leave beyond 8 weeks would eliminate their right to return to work. Present law provides up to eight weeks of job-protected, unpaid parental leave. However, in some cases, employers verbally grant a worker more than eight weeks, even though the additional weeks are not job-protected. In one prominent case decided by the Supreme Judicial Court, Global NAPs, Inc. v. Awiszus, 457 Mass. 489 (2010), an employer granted a mother ten weeks of maternity leave, only to fire her after she came back to work because she was only legally protected for eight of those weeks. This kind of misleading and unfair treatment would be outlawed by the new legislation.
The legislation was strongly supported by the work of Greater Boston Legal Services (GBLS), the AFL-CIO and Associated Industries of Massachusetts (AIM). You can see the full text of this bill by going to: https://malegislature.gov/Bills/188/Senate/S865.
For more information about Sen. Jehlen visit http://www.patjehlen.org or follow her on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/SenPatJehlen.
This Saturday the City of Somerville will honor five veterans – George Hughes (Army), John Doncaster (Army), Raymond Deeran (Navy), James Papaluca (Marine) and Joseph Guidi (Navy) – who founded the Somerville Youth Hockey Association in the 1960s. The five men’s names will appear on a plaque at the new ice rink at 570 Somerville Ave., next to the Veterans Memorial Rink, when it is officially dedicated as the Founders Rink at a special event on Saturday, Oct. 26, at 2 p.m. The new ice rink was opened in 2012, two years after the City took control of the Veterans Memorial Rink. For more on the history of youth hockey in Somerville: http://bit.ly/19B0TU2
GREAT FOOD & GREAT CHEFS
to support a GREAT CAUSE!
A BENEFIT FOR COMMUNITY COOKS
NOVEMBER 11 * 6:30 – 8:30 PM
Regattabar at the Charles Hotel
1 Bennett Street, Cambridge
Join us for an evening of fine food and wine
Sample hors d’oeuvres and speciality drinks from:
Alden & Harlow | Amelia’s Trattoria | Belly Wine Bar
The Blue Room | Garden at the Cellar | Harvest
Henrietta’s Table | Island Creek Oysters | Noir | Park
Rialto | Russell House Tavern | Sandrine’s Bistro
Upstairs on the Square | West Bridge
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Paul Maisano has joined the Somerville News Weekly team and will be writing a weekly column about his true experiences and adventures here in the Ville!
So don’t miss it and look for it in our print edition as well as online!
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By William Tauro
On Tuesday, Great Hill Dental Partners LLC. hosted it’s grand opening event for it’s Somerville new location located at 40 Holland Street, right in the heart of Davis Square.
Great Hill Dental has five locations in the greater Boston area and offers the very best and professionalism in dentistry with a modern touch of technology and state of the art equipment backing it up.
Former Somerville Mayor/Middlesex County Register of Deeds turned book author, Gene Brune was the official dignitary who was asked to conduct the ribbon cutting ceremony.
According Great Hill Doctor Richard Michalowski DMD, Mayor Brune was a perfect and appropriate fit especially with this grand opening because of the fact that when Brune was mayor back in the 80’s, he was the mayor who was instrumental in bringing in the Red Line to Davis Square as well as opening the very high rise newly renovated building that Great Hill Dental’s office is located in. Continue reading Great Hill Dental Partners, LLC Grand Opening in Davis Square Somerville
Somerville, MA – October 2nd, 2013– The Post-Meridian Radio Players are bringing the dead back to challenge the living this Halloween season with a stage adaptation of the classic horror film The Night of the Living Dead. The show will also feature an adaptation of the classic Suspense! radio episode Ghost Hunt.
Ghost Hunt, originally aired in 1949, tells the tale of a radio DJ “Smiley Smith” (Joev Dubach) as he spends the night in an allegedly haunted house. The PMRP version is directed by Mindy Klenoff (The Do-Nothing Detective, Summer Radio Theatre). Continue reading Night of the Living Dead Shambles to the Somerville Stage this Halloween!
Congratulations to the new bride and groom, our good friend Rachel and Jeff Snow of Somerville Plumbing Company. Half of Somerville traveled down south this past weekend as the couple tied the knot down in the Garden State of NJ on Saturday! We here at the News wish them all the best for a lifetime of happiness!
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Happy Birthday greetings go out to our good friend Massachusetts State Trooper Rick Crosby who is celebrating his birthday this week! Rick is a great guy and is always around the Ville, mostly around all the major construction sites on the roads and highways!
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