The New Standard is reporting that workers' rights under the Family and Medical Leave Act are under attack. Good piece, although one form of attack wasn't mentioned: the FMLA figured prominently on the White House's hit list of regs to be weakened or eliminated.

The public needs regulatory safeguards to protect our health, safety, environment, civil rights, and welfare. Corporate special interests, however, have an interest in avoiding spending a single dime to improve their destructive behavior. Again and again, when new regulatory protections have been proposed, corporate lobbyists have argued that business would be bankrupted and forced to go out of business. Again and again, they have been proven wrong. Download our fact sheet "The Going-Out-of-Business Myth" to learn just how wrong they have been time and time again.