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October 6, 2006
Experience Works, an organization offering training and employment services for the elderly, has named a 104-year-old as America's oldest worker. Waldo McBurney of Quinter, Kansas, has been honored by the group while other elderly peers of his, have already spent decades in retirement. McBurney has no plans for retirement soon. He graduated from the then Kansas State Agricultural College, which is currently known as Kansas State University in 1927. He worked in agriculture for twenty-five years, before he started working as a beekeeper.
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August 6, 2006
One woman tells The Sun that when she took a day off to fend off a migraine she received a text message from the firm's manager, Alex Barlett, terminating her employment. The SMS added that her sales figures were too low for the company.
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July 20, 2006
Wellington, New Zealand (AHN)-A New Zealand policewoman has been censured for moonlighting as a prostitute, but is being allowed to keep her day job after giving up the controversial night duties. While prostitution is legal in New Zealand and police are allowed to take approved second jobs, a top officer says sex work and police work don't mix.
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July 20, 2006
A female police officer who was discovered last year to have been a prostitute for a short time has gotten off with a warning, according to New Zealand police authorities. The officer, who is not identified, is stationed in Auckland, the biggest city in New Zealand.
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May 11, 2006
Topics schools, teacher, employment, sperm, eggs, kelly, natural, french, lawyer, church, wife, couple, family and school
Kelly Romenesko, a French teacher at two Roman Catholic schools in Appleton, was fired when she and her husband decided to start a family using in vitro fertilization. The Catholic School system claimed that Romenesko violated a provision of her employment contract saying a teacher has to act in accordance with Catholic doctrine which holds IVF as morally wrong as it replaces the "natural" conjugal union between husband and wife and often results in destruction of embryos.
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