As the cold weather arrives, so does the flu. The flu poses many challenges for employers, most significantly in regard to worker absences. There’s little doubt that an employer might be motivated by a business interest to encourage workers who are sick with the flu to stay home and rest so they can nip the symptoms in the bud, return to work sooner and avoid passing the flu on to co-workers and causing even more absences. But we all know that many workers will come to work with flu-like symptoms and tough it out for a day or two, feeling they’re still well enough to work (a phenomenon called “presenteeism”).

A straight line is always the shortest distance between two points, but the road to equality in terms of sexual orientation has not travelled that most direct route. Finding our way anywhere new, particularly if the path is sometimes blocked by a need for social, cultural and legal change, takes time and perseverance.

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