Sweden

This is taking corporate transparency to a whole new level. The Swedish lingerie firm Change found itself under fire this past week when a group of its female employees announced plans to file a lawsuit against the company. Their complaint centers on a policy that they say mandates that Change workers declare ...

By Louise Nordstrom STOCKHOLM (AP) -- One of Henrik Holgersson's friends laughed in his face when he told him he was going to spend the better part of 2011 as a stay-at-home dad. "What kind of a man are you?" the friend asked Holgersson, who works for an event management company. But just about everyone ...

Working nights can be tough, in large measure because human beings were meant to be alert during the day. Fighting the body's natural clock leads to health problems, researchers say, and may lead to shorter lifespans. For many workers, however, working the wee hours of the morning gives them the flexibility ...

Talk about insensitivity. As a patient lay dying at a nursing home in the south central Swedish city of Växjö, three workers thought it would be a good idea to place bets on how long the patient would last before dying. ...