Waco, TX, USA. Having an abusive boss not only causes problems at work but can lead to strained relationships at home, since the stress and tension can the employee's partner. It affects the marital relationship and subsequently the employee's entire family.

A study also found that more children at home meant greater family satisfaction for the employee, and the longer the partner's relationship, the less impact the abusive boss had on the family.

Troy, NY, USA. Does working from home part of the week (telework) help reduce work exhaustion caused by juggling work and family commitments? The answer may depend on the level of conflict you have between work and home and your ability to recharge your batteries.

Telework is on the increase in most industrialized countries and this trend may be spurred, in part, by the view that mixing work and home helps relieve work exhaustion and conflict between work and family commitments.

San Francisco, CA, USA. A coalition of business and labor groups won passage of a ballot measure reducing pension benefits for San Francisco's public employees. The question is how far it will go in solving the city's serious long-term pension finance problems.

San Francisco voters on Tuesday overwhelmingly approved a labor-supported plan to scale back retirement benefits for current and future city workers, a year after rejecting a pension-cutting proposal that public employee unions had oppos

Columbus, OH, USA. A law enacted by Republicans in Ohio this spring represents one of the most dramatic challenges to organized labor anywhere in the nation in 2011. But it may be repealed by voters next week.

Public employee unions spent most of 2011 suffering setback after setback in negotiating sessions, at state capitols and at the polls. But surveys suggest the labor movement is on the verge of a big win in Ohio next week.

Sydney, NSW, Australia. Whistleblowers, and nurses who had been reported by whistleblowers, reported a high incidence of alcohol problems, nightmares, paranoid behavior at work and overwhelming distress, as reported by Australian researchers who carried out the in-depth interviews.

These are just some of the problems reported by nurses who took part in a study of whistleblowing incidents. All were female and they had between two and 40 years of nursing experience.