Recently, a SavvySugar Community member talked about the possibility of her boss breaking a labor law. It's important to know what laws are to protect yourself as an employee. Here are some of the top legal rights you are entitled to as a worker: Family and medical leave: This law requires some employers with 50 or more employees to give 12 weeks of unpaid, job-protected sick leave for reasons Read more

This reader posted in our anonymous Savvy Confessions group, wondering if she should report her company to the labor board for denying her sick pay. Do you have any advice for her? So I work for an airline and we have this policy that flight attendants can take unlimited sick days due to the nature of our environment. Well I, unlike a lot of other flight attendants, haven't taken advantage of Read more

Although most people accept that pouring coffee and other menial tasks are part and parcel of an unpaid internship, two former interns who worked on the Black Swan production are taking a stance for their rights as unpaid interns. Alex Footman, 24, and Eric Glatt, 42, filed a lawsuit yesterday against Fox Searchlight Pictures alleging that the firm had them do drudge work and did not comply with Read more

Savvy things to do before the year-end. Make doable DIY gifts for your loved ones: a $5 terrarium and a gift card snow globe! 7 easy ways to make more money. Financial and career tips to surviving the holidays. Protect yourself by becoming familiar with these eight labor laws. How to break up with your bank. Rock your grad school interview with these 5 tips. How to prepare for the worst Read more

We're thrilled to present this smart LearnVest story here on Savvy! Graduate degrees are becoming like tattoos: you should think hard before getting one. Tuition at graduate schools has been skyrocketing — for professional programs, it has jumped 60% in the last decade. In 2009, a year of grad school was $21,900 at a public school and $34,100 at a private one. These are serious numbers, Read more

This post was submitted by dtcakes77 in the Birth Stories group. At 20 weeks we found out we were having a boy. We were so excited, we already had a girl who was 2-years-old.  However there was something wrong in the sonogram and they sent my husband and I, with our daughter to a children's cardiologist to look at the enlarged atrium they uncovered. We were so nervous. After six hours trying Read more

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We're thrilled to present this smart LearnVest story here on Savvy! Trends. They seduce us into buying a hot item, only to leave us a year later with an emptier wallet and a useless widget. But there’s one trend we at LearnVest can get behind: conscious consumerism. At its most basic level, buying consciously just means taking a couple of extra seconds to consider each purchase. It’s a way Read more