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Working with plastic parts containing BPA–in auto industries, for instance–may make women more vulnerable to breast cancer. Women in Toronto’s plastic automotive parts factories have complained about pungent fumes and dust that caused nosebleeds, headaches, nausea and dizziness.

In the November 19th edition of the Toronto Star, Jim Morris, Jennifer Quinn, Robert Cribb and Julian Sher quotes auto plant worker Gina DeSantis as saying, "People were getting sick, but you never really thought about the plastic itself." She has worked there for 30 years.
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If you’re lucky enough to have a job, do you take your work home with you? It turns out that having an abusive boss not only causes problems at work but can lead to strained relationships at home. The stress and tension have an impact on the employee’s partner, which affects the marital relationship and the employee’s entire family. A bad boss could estrange you from your kids or even break up your marriage.

But there’s hope: The same study also found that more children an employee has at home, the greater family satisfaction he or she has, and the longer the partner’s relationship, the less impact the abusive boss has on the family.
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Ever go into a large restaurant or department store and see an "employee of the month" poster behind the cash register, complete with a photo of the worker? While this may seem kind of silly to a customer, since there is no cash bonus attached to this (only stockbrokers seem to get that), it turns out to be a major motivating tool for the business–something that costs them nothing but greatly increases worker productivity.
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